Our fiber garden will consist of stinging nettle (already planted), cotton, and flax. We will have our own little flax patch here and will also be helping with the flax section of the demonstration garden at the One-Room Schoolhouse.
Our color garden will focus solely on planting and caring for just one plant... indigo.
A Weaver's Garden: Growing Plants for Natural Dyes and Fibers
by Rita Buchanan
This little book is amazing! It has everything we're planting, plus
1 - Plant Fibers for Spinning and Stuffing
2 - Dyes from Plants
3 - Soap Plants for Cleaning Textiles
4 - Fragrant Plants to Scent and Protect Textiles
5 - Plant Materials Used to Make Textile Tools
6 - Creating a Garden
The two oldest students are doing Geometry this month, so that leaves 9 children. I can have them break into teams of 3 and each "adopt" a plant. First step, make a list of questions to research about your adopted plant. What do we need to know in order to grow it?
So it's back to using the index, which we practiced in our Geography reports! I should make a list of the additional books I have about each plant.
Cotton
blog posts
Cotton
Oct 2024
books
Cotton
by Millicent E. Selsam
The Story-Book of Science, chapter XVII "Cotton"
by Jean-Henri Fabre (FREE at Project Gutenberg)
Eli Whitney
by Jean Lee Latham
Where Did My Clothes Come From?
by Christine Butterworth
Roses Love Garlic: Companion Planting and Other Secrets of Flowers
by Louise Riotte
A Beetle Is Shy
by Dianna Hutts Aston
articles
Plan for Cotton and Flax in Your Garden
Homeplace Earth
Cotton Seed Growing Instructions
Thunder Acres
When to Plant Cotton
LSU Ag Center
Cotton Companion Plants
Savvy Garden
How to Grow Heirloom Arkansas Green Cotton from Seed
Running Bug Farm
Flax
blog posts
Picnic & Play: How a Shirt Grew in the Field
Sep 2019
books
How a Shirt Grew in the Field
trans. by Marguerita Rudolph
The Story-Book of Science by Jean-Henri Fabre, chapter XVI "Flax & Hemp"
(FREE at Project Gutenberg)
Linen: From Flax Seed to Woven Cloth
by Linda Heinrich
The Big Book of Flax: A Compendium of Facts, Art, Lore, Projects, and Song
by Christian and Johannes Zinzendorf
articles
How to Grow and Care for Flax Plants
The Spruce
Plan for Cotton and Flax in Your Garden
Homeplace Earth
Grow Flax for Linen in Your Garden
Homeplace Earth
Indigo
blog posts
books
A Dyer's Garden: From Plant to Pot, Growing Dyes for Natural Fibers
by Rita Buchanan
articles
Stirring Up an Indigo Revival Where Slave Cabins Still Stand
The New York Times - Sep 19, 2024
Growing Japanese Indigo
Cedar Dell Designs
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