My journey into growing indigo plants (and extracting the pigment!) has been a rollercoaster ride. My main issue this year was a failed Japanese indigo crop. Had to resow seeds and I grew only a handful of viable plants. Ultimately, I could only experiment with very small batches (Video coming soon 🌱). On the other hand, woad grows very well here (it’s low maintenance for me). Note: I’m always very careful NOT to let my woad plants go to seed. Woad isn’t welcomed in a lot of regions because it