How to tie-dye your clothes using natural dyes from food

It’s quiet on the fermenting and foraging front this week, as Valerie O’Connor takes time out to go back to her roots for a good old dye.

Recently it’s been claimed that I am a hippy. Hippy, moi?

Now hipster is a word that we are too familiar with and probably tired of and being a woman I haven’t managed to cultivate that uniform of full beard (ginger if you’re lucky), and American gothic gentleman’s way of dressing, while having a bunch of tattoos on my arms and waving the rare-breed or vegan flag.