VASSALBORO — Junction Garden, owned and operated by Eileen Flanagan and John Cochrane, is a small-scale market farm using regenerative and organic farming practices specializing in natural dye plants ...

Dyers say pigments can imprint a favorite color on clothing, quilts or even yarn and give them a way to connect with nature and preserve it. The flowers of perennial dyer’s chamomile are one of James ...

Natural indigo dye has been used worldwide for thousands of years, but the invention of synthetic indigo dye in the 1800s caused the industry to crater. In Japan's Tokushima Prefecture, only a handful ...