Indigo is returning to South Carolina
submitted by Shirley_Burt
on 02/21/19
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We wanted to welcome its return with a Harvest Celebration. In fall of 2016, a small group of farmers, textile artists, and natural dyers gathered at the historic McCullough Farm in Kingstree, South Carolina, to harvest a 21st century crop of indigo, and begin processing it into natural indigo dye powder. This part of the Lowcountry near the Black River in Williamsburg County was known to produce high quality indigo during its heyday as a cash crop in the mid-to-late 1700’s. Now, more than 2 centuries later, the same South American variety of indigo (indigofera suffruticosa) is thriving on these same soils.
