The Cornell Natural Dye Garden was started in the spring of 2015 as an opportunity to cultivate a variety of colors for textiles that come from the natural world. We believe natural dyes are a sustainable intervention in the apparel supply chain and the Cornell Natural Dye Garden has become a hands-on and direct classroom for students to learn how to cultivate, extract, and create colors on textiles.

Located in the courtyard between the Human Ecology Building and Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, the garden is regularly used for teaching demonstrations and community outreach. We would like to thank those who generously donated monetary gifts through the Cornell Crowdfunding campaign, which helped us to establish the dye garden as a place of research, teaching, and outreach.  Every January we invite students, faculty, staff, and the public, to view the outcome of our gardening efforts in the "Natural Dye Studio" exhibition, located in the Jill Stuart Gallery, Terrace Level of the Human Ecology Building.