A mad idea

In about September 2018, I went to watch the start of the fort build at Park in the Past. I had recently become interested in hand spinning wool, and natural dyes. It was all rather theoretical at that point, but I was managing to hold the spindle and not drop it all the time. ( bad drop spindle joke ).  I had been thinking about planting some native dye plants at home with grand ideas of dyeing my beautiful hand spun.
As you do, I got chatting to Paul Harston, the brains behind Park in the Past and he told me about his plans to have a native roundhouse and farm attached to the fort. I mentioned that this would be great for trying to grow flax for linen production and maybe some dye plans as well. He suggested I start a raised bed at the front entrance to the park. I had a vision of two beautiful raised beds either side of the gate, and said that would be wonderful. If I had known what I was getting myself into, I might have had second thoughts.







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