September 26, 2015
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/26/2015
9:30 am-1:30 pm
Location
Paulin Creek Open Space Preserve
Categories
Join your friends at the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District and Landpaths to lend nature a hand and learn that skill you’ve been “dyeing” to learn! Wielding our collective volunteer power, and the handy assistance of weed wrenches, we’ll remove French Broom to enhance native habitat in the Paulin Creek Open Space Preserve. This day promises to be both satisfying and colorful. French Broom, a commonly known invasive shrub, also happens to be a choice natural dye plant. Throughout our workday we’ll demonstrate how to use French Broom stems and leaves to color your own piece of cloth a beautiful natural green! We’ll bring some samples of cloth for you to dye that have been soaked ahead of time with alum, a binding agent or “mordant.”
Level of difficulty: Easy to moderate