Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear: From Seed to Style the Sustainable Way

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Inhaltlich hat mir das Buch so gut gefallen, dass ich es mir nach der Kindle-Version noch in Buchform bestellt habe. I am not sure the idea of combining a bit of everything is going to do much for an experienced gardener, cook or clothes maker. Her book Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear: From seed to sustainable fashion’ was published in early 2022 and narrates her clear, engaging vision of how to live sustainability. From sharp and edgy photo sessions to fashion, architecture, technology – the commitment is dedicated to a future that is all about us – together.

Five crops; blackberry, cabbage, nettle, onion and rhubarb play leading roles in this book by Bella Gonshorovitz, as they carry the reader through each step or process: grow, cook, dye, wear.In the book’s dye section, I share instructions on how to extract dye and a color map for each crop. Swap food waste and fast fashion for homegrown produce, delicious vegan dishes, and a contemporary capsule wardrobe with the help of Bella’s friendly, accessible approach to sustainable living. Thinking what I can do with it – led me to ideas of founding a club where members can purchase items and also get an experiential dinner. The book will guide you through every step of the process, you will learn not only how to forage, sow, harvest, and cook your own fruits and vegetables, but also how to use your homegrown produce to create natural dyes. The first step is hunting, growing or foraging for produce, then there’s cooking with five vegan or plant-based recipes.

It would make an excellent gift for vegan friends interested in sustainable living, cooking and sewing. There are interesting recipes and the book is written in a way that is nice to read and welcoming to beginners. Like most recipe books, the recipes are a little hit-and-miss, but the majority of recipes in this are actually really good, which surprised me - a lot of vegan cookbooks pair the strangest ingredients and make really conflicting meals, but for the most part, the recipes here were unusual but really delicious. Overall this is a really wonderful little book and a great introduction to vegan cooking, fabric dying and clothes-making.Onion is a great choice, as it can be cultivated easily and if people lack space to grow it, it’s common enough to be able to source skins. An important, beautifully made book about sustainable living that I found both timeless and incredibly relevant at the same time. The reason recipes are included in the book is to show people a tentative spectrum of colors they can achieve.

For example, madder – it can be harvested only three to five years after growing and the roots are used to obtain the dye. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. With respect to dyeing, cabbage is not an ideal dye plant as it creates temporary but beautiful colors. Though working with upcycled fabric is efficient, because natural dyes work great in obscuring stains. In the context of my book that will also be counterproductive because I want people to engage with circularity in an approachable way.The patterns are easy to follow with detailed instructions for each garment - even a beginner could follow quite easily, provided they can work a basic sewing machine. The aim here isn’t for readers to grow all of their vegetables, hand make all clothes, or even convert to a strict vegan diet. If you are interested in slow fashion, growing your own food, vegan recipes and producing less waste this is the book for you. If the initial age verification is unsuccessful, we will contact you asking you to provide further information to prove that you are aged 18 or over. Fashion designer who opened her made-to-measure studio in East London in 2012, creating fine clothes designed for longevity.

Right now, the book offers a very feasible experience that does not involve growing plants to extract fiber, dyeing those and then weaving them into a fabric. Modifiers are interesting because when you dye something, it is very rare to get two identical results.Extracting from her own experience as a fashion designer and plant grower, Bella inspires a more sustainable lifestyle through a journey from seed to crop, from harvest to plant-based cooking and utilising food waste to create fabric dye for contemporary dressmaking. The final step is making the garment using all the patterns provided in a separate pocket within the book. With clothes, as with vegetables, the end product is often presented in a manner detached from its origins and it’s too easy to forget that everything we eat, consume and wear comes from nature. My wife uses natural botanicals to dye Irish wool as a hobby, but does enough of it that we built a free-standing wool dyeing studio (she-shed) for her. You start with the onion, perhaps in spring and harvest in autumn, cook with it, collect enough skins to dye the fabric and make the dress over winter so it’s ready to wear next spring.