Saturday, April 25, 2026 • 10am-2pm
At Feser Cold Springs (15 miles north of Ojai, California)

Color Medicine: A Seasonal Workshop Exploring the Natural Dye and Herbal Medicine of Sagebrush

In sagebrush country, on warm days, the scent of medicine swirls in the air. Some of the same compounds which give Artemisia tridentata its signature scent and potent medicinal qualities also produce brilliant natural dye colors, and we’re after both—color and medicine—in this immersive one-day workshop.

Join me at Feser Cold Springs, a rustic homestead on the confluence of Tule and Sespe Creeks housing a spring-fed flower and fruit farm—about fifteen miles north of Ojai, but in an entirely different world—for a day outdoors celebrating sagebrush’s dye and herbal medicine.

We’ll dye silks with Artemisia’s vivid colors, brewed from plants we’ll harvest on-site, and create medicinal salve using sagebrush oil—infused the day of the workshop—with the option to add other plants, both medicinal and colorful, to our salves and dye pots. In conversation and practice, we’ll explore ethical harvesting practices, land-tending and relationship, and discuss sagebrush’s role in the ecosystems it defines.

You’ll leave with a dyed wearable silk capturing the color of a place and time—high spring in sagebrush country—and a tin of your own coordinating medicinal, fragrant salve. Both processes will be explored from start to finish, offering you a foundation to repeat the techniques yourself, and to forge an ongoing relationship with this plant, the places it grows, and its potent medicinal color.

About Feser Cold Springs
Located fifteen miles north of Ojai, Feser Cold Springs is a family-run flower and fruit farm nestled along the confluence of Tule and Sespe Creeks. The property is just off of Highway 33, a couple miles past Rose Valley/Sespe River Road—easily accessible, yet in an entirely different world than the town below. We’ll work outdoors, surrounded by the farm’s blooming flowers, with the creek trickling in the background, and will brew our dye from the spring water which supplies the farm’s only natural irrigation.

More details and exact location will be sent to participants by email. Please read our Workshop Cancellation Policy before signing up, and reach out if you have any questions. Hope to see you there!