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

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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. 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. Fashion designer who opened her made-to-measure studio in East London in 2012, creating fine clothes designed for longevity.

We hope to be an inclusive company and strive to create an environment that is welcoming and embraces diversity, both with our online presence, the makers we represent, our physical pop-ups events and our collaborations. The exciting part is the content itself is very practical and useful, conveying a number of useful techniques across each area. Focused around five crops (blackberry, nettle, onion, red cabbage, and rhubarb) that can be foraged or grown in an allotment, planter, or container, the author shows you how to embrace a holistic garden-to-garment lifestyle in her book: Grow, Cook, Dye, Wear.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. Live sustainably with style - grow fruits and vegetables, cook them, create natural dyes, then make your own clothes with five full-size pattern sheets.

The final step is making the garment using all the patterns provided in a separate pocket within the book. She has a clear, engaging vision of how we can live sustainably and shares this with warmth rather than worthiness.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.

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. 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. Die gewählte Schrift ist nur schwer zu entziffern und das macht das Lesen enorm anstrengend, weswegen ich dem Buch nur 4 Sterne gegeben habe. 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.

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. I always feel that everything can continually be more sustainable but nothing is ever truly sustainable. There are interesting recipes and the book is written in a way that is nice to read and welcoming to beginners.