We’re Always Looking for Indigo Growers & Harvest Helpers!
We’re looking for home gardeners, school garden growers, and anyone with even a small growing space who would like to join our indigo-growing community.
Our harvest sessions usually take place on weekdays from 10:30 to 12:30.
Come and help us grow and harvest local indigo — and earn our community TOKEN as a thank-you for your contribution!
🪙 Reward: 100 MKY Token per participant
Grow together. Harvest together. Create local color together. 💙
Our garden in Amsterdam
Dimen
Schooltuin A.Wagner
Provincialeweg 53, 1103 SB
Amstel
Schooltuin Gerrit Kalff
Kruislaan 5, 1097 EC
Noord
Schaap schooltuin
Heggerankweg 87, 1032 JB
Local Local Production & Collective Making and Consumption
Blue Monkey explores local indigo cultivation as a form of collective production within an urban environment. Inspired by movements in local agriculture, the project investigates how textile dyeing can shift from global mass production toward small-scale, community-based practices.
Rather than attempting large-scale fibre production, the project repositions discarded garments as local resources. By re-dyeing and reconstructing existing textiles with indigo grown in Amsterdam, Blue Monkey questions how value can be redefined through proximity, participation and shared processes.
This approach does not simply aim to reduce environmental impact. It examines how production itself can become relational—connecting cultivation, making and community engagement within the city.
Future Development
A long-term goal is to establish an Indigo Dyeing Garden in Amsterdam that functions not only as a cultivation site, but as a shared research space. The garden becomes a place where artistic experimentation, material learning and community participation intersect.
Future steps include:
- Expanding indigo cultivation through collaboration with additional Schooltuin and community gardens
- Creating decentralised indigo spaces across different gardens
- Facilitating collaborative dyeing sessions with neighbours
- Developing an ongoing practice of re-dyeing garments, allowing textiles to accumulate history through repeated transformation
Through these developments, Blue Monkey seeks to explore how urban cultivation can support alternative models of authorship, ownership and collective value in textile production.
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