Rose & Graham

Graham owns a farm business selling seeds for natural dye plants, which he currently grows in both Vermont and California. Graham has been gardening since he was a small child and founded his dye plant/seed business in 2012. He also grows several natural dye plants such as indigo, weld and madder for use in his workshops and for sale to students. His seeds are available for sale through his website (grahamkeegan.com). Graham remains an avid home gardener with a special penchant for growing heirloom beans, garlic and tomatoes. Rose's work with plants became her primary focus in 2017 when she began a homesteading project in North Carolina. In 2018 she planted a thirty tree Paw Paw orchard (the majority of which she grew from seed complemented by several grafted cultivated varieties!) as a home orchard/future pick-your-own in a riparian area/floodplain that had previously been cleared of vegetation. Rose has been a home vegetable gardener since 2013 when she tended a kitchen garden in Coastal Maine. Since then has expanded to growing native perennial plants for food, medicine and biodiversity and designing and planting ecosystem gardens. In addition to more traditional gardening/homesteading practices, she has led workshops on safe, regenerative wild harvest of edible mushrooms and plants. She has been involved in small scale agroforestry of woodland edible and medicinal plants - growing ramps and ginseng from seed. Rose and Graham have been growing and saving two varieties of Vermont heirloom beans - the Dolloff bean from Burke and the Skunk bean from Chester - for the last four years. They currently maintain gardens in both Vermont and California, and are excited to move full time to Vermont and inhabit the rhythm of the seasons here year-round.