In Waste(d) we highlight issues around food production and waste within the supply chain through localised colour narratives. Each colour holds a different material narratives in relation to the land, our food production and supply chains.

Whilst not offering solutions to the inadequacies of our food systems this project highlights opportunities to utilise agricul-tural waste for both textile colouration and as a tool to increase aware-ness of how we think about food and its connection to the land which sustains us.

Colour from the seed of curly dock highlights the potential of overlooked resources of bio materials within a farming environment. Foraging and removal of invasive weeds improves soil health. 

Carrot top waste from an organic grower from East Anglian Fens - highlights the potential to extract colour from parts of a plant that are discarded rather than eaten. 

Colour from raspberry waste from the intensive production of soft fruit in Kent highlights the unpredictability of market demand, the sensitivity of produce to our climate, and the effects these uncertainties have on supply to.