Colors From The Columbia Greenmarket!
Below are the colors we created at the Columbia Greenmarket on September 9th. We used mums and kale from Stannard Farm, Washington County, NY, and…
Thank You For Crafting With Us!
Many thanks to everyone who helped Textile Lab felt together two amazing textiles to give to the farmers at Garden Of Eve and Norwich Meadows Farm. The farms…
Textile Lab At “Unsold Supper” Event Tomorrow 9/15
Join Textile Lab tomorrow Saturday September 15th from 4-6 with our friends from Our Goods to engage, create and feast at the “Unsold Supper” Event.…
Colors Found At Tompkins Square Park Market!
We made dyes last week at the Tompkins Square Market with sage and radish tops from Acevedo Farm, Pine Island, NY. Below are the colors…
Textile Lab: Color palette from Greenpoint, Brooklyn
At the Greenpoint Greenmarket we created dyes with rosemary and cilantro from Osczepinski Farm, Goshen, NY. Farmer Joe from Healthway Farms gave us some red…
Textile Lab Visits Fort Greene Park In Brooklyn!
We had a successful visit to the Greenmarket at the Fort Greene Park last Saturday. We made dye with marigolds from Rexcroft Farms in Athens…
Inwood Welcomes Textile Lab
The community at Inwood includes many people who are interested in sustainability and the environment. Many visitors stopped by Textile Lab to learn about natural…
Textile Lab Back On The Road for 2012!
Textile Lab will be visiting the GrowNYC Greenmarkets starting Saturday August 11th! We will be at the Inwood market from 10am-3pm harvesting plants and flowers…
Mid-Summer Workshop Saturday July 14th
It’s mid-summer and thanks to the persistent sun, the sunflowers are doing great this year. We will be at La Finca this Saturday from 11-2pm to discuss the project and phytoremediation. Please join us.
2012 Workshops at the Field Lab
We will be spending a lot of time at La Finca del Sur this summer again, testing out some new plants and growing some more…
Opening Day at the Field Lab
Saturday, April 14th is opening day at La Finca del Sur. Come launch season 2 at the field lab with us. We will be planting…
Lab results for 2011
Got a little too busy at the end of the year to follow up and soil sampling results we had sent to the lab in…
Field Guide printed
We put together a field guide to phytoremediation based on our research and experience at La Finca del Sur this summer. It’s a 40+ page…
Final Harvest
This past Sunday, we harvested the last standing sunflower, mugwort plants and Indian mustard. We took some soil samples too. So -fingers crossed- soon we…
Loop De Loop Recycling Event
Below are pictures of the GrowNYC Loop De Loop Recycling Event at the Union Square Pavilion. Textile Lab dyed market bags made from reclaimed t…
Harvest Festival
Join Field Lab this Sunday 10/23 at La Finca del Sur for a harvest festival. La Finca will be celebrating Halloween, the harvest, the closing…
Loop De Loop Recycling with Textile Lab
Join Textile lab this Saturday 10/15 at the Union Square pavilion for the Loop De Loop Recycling event! We will be there from 11am-3pm dyeing…
Greenpoint Greenmarket!
The lab paid another visit to the Williamsburg and Greenpoint Greenmarkets on Saturday. We made dyes with fennel, cilantro and onion skins from Garden of…