January 2023 My interest in natural dyes was roused in my teenage years. I remember begging my parents to send me to Oregon to take a mushroom dying class with Miriam Rice. I missed that opportunity so I experimented on my own. In my parent’s basement I used hemp...
Back in the Studio- I collected a few specimens from the woods to begin working on an Earth Bitch Jacket dedicated to endangered mushrooms. Deforestation, fertilizer run off and unknown, unrecorded, un-researched circumstances are all responsible for the decline of...
November 2020 I set off into the woods to study fungi. I was pleasantly surprised by the diversity of mushrooms growing on such a cold day in November, in Vermont. Once I discovered a species and started to take a closer look I forgot about how cold my fingers and...
The Burlington Free Press, Wednesday, May 14, 2008by Myra Mathis-Flynn Eco-Fashion Clothing collection merges style and politics. Fashion designer Tara Lynn Scheidet shows off one of her eco-friendly jackets. “All my clothes make a political statement,”...
March 12th, 2014 Written by Erin Hiatt for “THC The Hemp Connoisseur” Colorado’s Premier Guide to Cannabis The saying “you are what you eat” should be changed to “you are what you wear.” For example, the woman walking down the sidewalk in the yoga pants and fleece...
