What we Grow
Color, Food & Medicine for Resilience
Dye Plants & Seeds
Working with pigment plants is a practice of beauty and deep connection — a way of letting the land's color move through your hands and onto cloth. Each plant offers its own quiet kind of healing, given time, patience, and steam.
Food for our Neighbors
Through the Humble Harvest Project, youth grow fresh food in eight right-sized beds and share it with neighbors through 1st Phoenix Community Center's no-barrier pantry — food as service, and as a practice of resilience for our whole community.
Herbal Medicine
Growing and preparing your own remedies is an act of self-determination. Our medicinal plantings support holistic wellbeing and a return to the old knowledge of caring for ourselves and each other with what the land provides.
Explore Our offerings
Grow your own natural dye garden! This kit is designed for the backyard gardener who wants to experiment with the science and art of growing plants for all natural color pigmentation. The plants chosen for this kit are great for beginners to intermediate gardeners.
The kit contains 30+ seeds each of 6 different dye plants, plus complete growing instructions for each plant. You’ll enjoy 3 perennials and 3 annuals for a whole rainbow of colors. The six individual paper packets come inside a clear cellulose pillow box excellent for gift giving and protecting your seeds in varied conditions.
The hardy perennials can be planted Jan-Mar and the annuals can be planted Mar-May.
Most of the plants will do well in pots on a patio garden and all will do well planted directly in the ground.
Purchase these online now with FREE SHIPPING in the US! Or if you are local to Ashland, OR, choose pickup or delivery at checkout.
There is something ancient and steadying about working soil together.
At Sunny Joy Farm, volunteer days are not just about getting projects done (though we do get a lot done). They are about remembering that land stewardship is communal. That food tastes better when shared. That connection grows more easily when our hands are busy.
These gatherings are open to the wider community. No special skills required — just a willingness to show up, lend a hand, and be part of something growing.
We’ll gather for a check in and inspiration or poem for 15-20 min. Then we work side by side for a couple hours, and gather for simple food and conversation. Connection grows. Stories unfold. The farm breathes a little easier.
What to Bring
Work clothes you don’t mind getting dirty
Gloves (if you have them)
A water bottle
A simple entree or snack to share optional, but lovely. I always make sure there is yummy food.
Volunteer days support the broader ecosystem of Sunny Joy Farm — from regenerative growing to youth mentorship through the Resilient Youth Internship Program. When you come, you are not just helping move compost. You are investing in soil health, community resilience, and meaningful pathways for young people to belong and contribute.
If you feel called, come join us.
The land always responds to collective care.
🌱 Upcoming Volunteer Days
Wednesday Oct 7 | 2:30–5:30 pm
Sunday Oct 11 | 10:00am–12:30 pm
Wednesday Nov 4 | 1:30–4:30 pm
Sunday Nov 15 | 10:00am–12:30 pm
< Winter Break>
Wednesday March 3 | 1:30–4:30 pm
Sunday March 14 | 10:00am–12:30 pm
Wednesday April 7 | 2:30–5:30 pm
Sunday April 11 | 10:00am–12:30 pm
Wednesday May 5 | 2:30–5:30 pm
Sunday May 9 | 10:00am–12:30 pm
Wednesday June 2 | 2:30–5:30 pm
Sunday June 13 | 10:00am–12:30 pm
Give the gift of dream realization!
These sweet little Mugwort aromatherapy dream pillow sets are made with delightfully subtle colored scraps of botanically printed fabrics and are hand sewn together. Mugwort, Lavender and Catnip are the plant allies I’ve chosen from my garden to stuff these adorable sleep companions with.
Mugwort is traditionally used to enhance dream clarity and is believed to bring awareness to the dream’s purpose in waking life. Catnip has long been known to promote relaxation and quiet the mind. Lavender’s strong floral essence smells delightful, serves as an anti-microbial in the mix and aids in drifting off to dreamland peacefully.
Enjoy laying a dream pillow under your head when you lay down for a rest and intend the realization of your dreams in waking life.
Eight Mugwort Dream Pillows per set.
Set includes various sizes ranging from 3.5”-4.5”
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This one is a great Mother/Daughter class. Harvest fresh leaf indigo from my garden and using only salt and the juices from the leaves, dye a silk satin handkerchief a lovely teal green. When dyeing with indigo on silk fibers, no mordant is necessary. Leaves are simply macerated with salt and the pigments transfer to the silk like magic. You will finish the workshop with your own 17”x17” silk satin hanky that can be worn as a scarf or a head wrap.
By request September-October 2026
Talent, Address provided upon registration.
$75 per person
This class is available scheduled at your convenience for groups of 2 or more. Just send me a message to schedule a day that works for you.
You may register by clicking add to cart here, OR you may send me an email at sunny@sunnyjlindley.com and pay via Venmo, Paypal, or Cash on arrival.