These seed postcards were created in collaboration with Brussels-based artist Agathe Payen and printed using the art of risography. Each card features a poem that honors the significance of seeds and emphasizes the importance of nurturing and propagating them. The cover is adorned with a handmade, natural paper seed circle, embedded with organic watercress seeds.

At the 2024 Rural Resilience gathering in Grzybow, Poland, we distributed these postcards as part of an interactive and sensory experience with attendees. To our surprise, we soon learned that by doing so, we were echoing a Polish tradition, where watercress is sown at Easter as a symbol of good luck and renewal!

Meet Talú Earth, an Irish natural dye house and educational hub rooted in regenerative practices. One of the key aspects of Talú Earth’s work is the promotion of native dye plants from Ireland, advocating for their reintroduction in fields, gardens, and artisanal textile workshops.

At the 2023 edition of the Feeding Ourselves event in Cloughjordan, Ireland, Seeds4All invited Talú Earth to lead a public natural dye workshop. The event was a huge success! For over three hours, participants discovered and experimented with various natural dyeing techniques using flowers, roots, and avocado pits. The results were impressive: deep indigo tablecloths made from a local variety of indigo, and rainbow-colored t-shirts created using the shibori technique and local plants like chamomile, birch bark, and dandelion roots.