Upcoming Events
Stitch Field Alice-Marie Archer's Agritextiles
For this site-specific installation at the Benton, the artist has chosen seeds of locally occurring California plants with either edible or medicinal properties.
Fiber Chat: a Monthly Meetup
Announcing the launch of monthly member meet-ups. Second Thursdays at 11 a.m.—an early lunch and learn format. For May only, optional date, Tuesday, May 14 at 7pm. Link through for more details.
Fiber Chat: a Monthly Meetup (Evening)
Announcing the launch of monthly member meet-ups. Optional evening date: Tuesday, May 14 at 7pm. Link through for more details.
Fiber Fest at San Diego Craft Collective
SAVE THE DATE! Join us at San Diego Craft Collective for a day of farm to fashion displays, workshops, and talks! Note, the Fiber Festival runs Fri, Sat, Sun.
Los Alamos Chat & Wine Tasting
SAVE THE DATE, and time still tbd. So Cal Fibershed will be the featured speaker for Casa Dumetz/Clementine Carter’s Friday evening speaker series. If you’re in the Central Coast, please come through.
Save the Date: Natural Dye Drop-In and Midtown LA Meetup
We’re coordinating informal natural dye days and meetups in neighborhoods throughout So Cal. Save the Date August 3rd in Midtown LA.
WeFF
So Cal Handweavers Guild’s weaving and fiber festival, featuring vendors offering a range of tools, supplies, and books for weaving, spinning, knitting, and other fiber arts, as well as handcrafted items.
Lunch & Learn: Unraveling the Fabric Act
Getting more informed about policy and what we can do to drive change is a to priority for us. Our friends in PA have coordinated a learning opportunity around The Fabric Act.
Make it Last: A Textile Art Festival Focused on Sewing & Sustainability
San Diego Community College Continuing Education Clothing and Textiles Department annual Make it Last: “Buy Wise, Choose Well, Make It Last.”
Santa Barbara Textile Recycling Policy Event
CPSC and CalRecycle will host an educational and networking event. Free to the public. So Cal Fibershed will have a booth; please visit us and say hello!
Cover Crops in Orchards Fall Field Day
Join Rodale Institute’s Regenerative & Organic Consulting Manager Nathanael Gonzales-Siemens and University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources for a Cover Crops in Orchards Fall Field Day!
Webinar: Soil Microbes and Bean Nutrient in Organic and Conventional Systems
Join the presenters to learn about the recent findings on how cropping systems impact soil microbes, enzyme activity, and bean (green and black varieties) nutrient quality.
Webinar
This webinar will discuss how soil management practices impact short and long-term soil health indicators and vegetable nutrients in a long-term study.
Save the Date: Laura Sansone
Laura Sansone is a textile designer, activist, and consultant. She is the creator of Textile Lab and is currently an Assistant Professor of extiles at Parsons School of Design. She has developed initiatives that bring NY designers and farmers together with the goal of creating products that have social and environmental value.
WeFF
So Cal Handweavers Guild’s weaving and fiber festival, featuring vendors offering a range of tools, supplies, and books for weaving, spinning, knitting, and other fiber arts, as well as handcrafted items.
A Conversation with Merlin Sheldrake
Join Merlin Sheldrake, biologist and author of the bestselling book Entangled Life, for an illuminating conversation with CIIS professor of Ecology and Religion Elizabeth Allison. Merlin shares the ways these extraordinary organisms, and our relationships with them, change our understanding of the planet on which we live, and the ways that we think, feel, and behave.
Color: Soil, Flower, Food
Lesley Roberts and Anne LaForti will talk about color in the garden: soil nutrients, mycelium, flowers, plants (natural dye).