This is a blog post on growing and harvesting cabbage at home. Cabbage is a common staple diet here in the UK. A lot of British recipes have got cabbage as an ingredient. There are many varieties of cabbage to grow and also different color ones. When I first started growing my own food it … Read more
This blog post is about fabric dyeing with African marigolds flowers. Marigold flowers have been known to produce strong colors when dyed with fabric. Marigold also known as Tagetes are grown annually or perennial. Especially when fresh flowers are used to extract colors. Dried flowers also do work in my opinion the colors aren’t as … Read more
This is a blog post on how to obtain green dye out of Japanese indigo. Japanese indigo is also known as Pestacaria Tinctoria commonly grown in temperate climates like the UK, northern US, and Japan. I have been growing it in my garden this summer. It is an easy to grow dye plant. Here are … Read more
This is a blog post on cooking peach gum with longan and goji berry. Peach gum is also known as peach resin, peach blossom is solidified resin from peach trees and Chinese wild peach trees. In Chinese, it is called as Tao jiao. As it is full of natural collagen that gives a nice young … Read more
