Local artist and neighborhood champion turns a vacant, forgotten lot into a promising indigo farm

 In neighborhoods across Cleveland, vacant, overgrown lots undergo a transformation for fruits and veggies to take root, but in one vacant lot in Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District, an indigo garden had its first successful season.
Jessica Pinsky, the founder of Praxis Fiber Workshop, a nonprofit fiber art center in the revitalized arts district of Collinwood, said it’s always been a mission and a dream to have an agricultural component of her organization.

“We think about the textile industry and its global impact on the environment, and it’s terrible. As a local organization, I think it’s important to play a role in educating others about the effects of synthetic dyes and the role the textile industry has on the environment.”

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