Let’s keep Utah Wild and find me a bike! I’m in the market for a new ride.

environmental buttons via Smithsonian

The Katherine Pettit Book of Vegetable Dyes, learn how here.
The handwoven, vegetable dyed throw is by Helen Wilmer Stone Viner, made in the 1930s. Katherine Pettit taught her how to dye at the Pine Mountain Settlement School in Kentucky.

Abandoned denim of Red River Valley. Weird. Red River Valley by Ya Ho Wa 13 is one of my fave songs from psych cult/intentional community—The Source. Listen to the song below. Trippy description of the jeans discovered:

Pair of commercially produced Wrangler denim jeans that were found in the southern Rocky mountains across from Red River, New Mexico in the late 1960′s. The pants had been bleached in irregular patterns by the sun, and had various worn and torn places. After discovery, the Wranglers were embellished with red velour fabric pieces to cover some of the worst structural damage, and with a commercially available embroidered butterfly patch added below waistband at center back.

via University of North Texas

05 Red River Valley by N_is_N

Camp MacJannet began in 1925 as a summer camp for American and French children on the shores of Lake Annecy. It was styled after American sleep away camps, never seen before in Europe. American families touring Europe would drop their young ones off at Camp MacJannet while they continued on their vacation. During the war the camp dissolved and was turned over to the Quakers for safe keeping and used as a refugee camp. In 1946 the camp reopened and brought together again young French and Americans (many of them war orphans).

Pics above are from 1962. Idyllic young summer land.

via Tufts

Tenby Rangers Camp, 1923. via lovelydaylemon

Freak out!!! This lavender gem was rescued from a San Francisco trash can. My friend Amelia received it as a gift and brought it to me to show you.
The Hippie Cookbook or Don’t Eat Your Food Stamps by Gordon & Phillis Grabe, published by The Paisley Shawl Publishing Co., Forestville, CA 1970.
Included are many ‘hippie hints’, some selections :

Brown Bagging for Peace Marchers For protective food, two loaves of Northridge bread stuffed in your shirt will protect against sword-like jabs from night sticks. And when a sit-in tends to drag on, it will protect against hunger pangs.

Hippie Hint #142 Paint your kitchen a wild assortment of colors so you can recognize it.

Commune with Nature Gather all your friends and go to your local unlisted private type winery. Pack along some cheese, all different types, green onions, fresh bread and apples. Bring your portable A.M F.M. solid state triple track sound system and have a rock festival in the vineyard. Tambourines, guitars and futes are essential. Wine is nature. Food is nature. Nature is nature. DIG THE EARTH!

best part : it’s available online. Dig it People.