The blue pigment was originally made from crushed indigo plants, a common crop for plantations in the American South. The pigment was added to milk paint that in the early days was mixed in pits ...

I have been so fortunate, these last three years, that Barbara Murphy, director of the Habitat for All Garden at the Valentine Farm, has encouraged me to work with people using natural dyes at the ...

This "haint blue," first derived from the dye produced on Lowcountry indigo plantations, was originally used by enslaved Africans, and later by the Gullah Geechee, to combat "haints" and "boo hags ...