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To Love the Wind
This is a story about wildfire.
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
From High Country and Low Country
Two new skin salves, made from local and seasonal plants with delicious scents and potent medicine.
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
And Then the Light Changes
Some roads remain the same, but others change each time I drive them.
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
What Gifts the Rain Brings
A one-day natural dyeing workshop at Birdsong Ranch in Ojai, California
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
On Belonging
to the Earth.
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
The Dyer's Almanac: A Native Dye Garden
The first rain marks the start of a new season, in the wild and in our gardens.
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
The Dyer’s Almanac: Fall 2025
A once-per-season look at natural color in the landscape
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
What the Tide Reveals II
Fossils of ancient sea lilies on the shore of Lake Michigan
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
The Dyer's Almanac: Coffeeberry & Buckthorn
On their natural colors and natural history
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
The Pinyons, the Fire, and the Spring
The spring is ten miles down a dirt road, which is fifty miles up the forest road.
 • Erin from Berbo Studio
Tinctoria
Tinctoria
Notes from a naturalist and natural dyer living, engaging, and creating with the ecological communities of California.
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