A hands-on, colourful immersive experiment

Natural Pigments & Cosmetics

Explore how to make natural pigments from rocks, plants and soils, and turn them into cosmetics such as lip balms and cheek tints. Participants take home their own natural creations.

13:30 – 18:30 NIROX → UCanGrow pack shed Your own pigments and a small artwork.

Itinerary

1
13:30 – 14:00
Introductions and kitting up with water bottles, harvesting tools and teams. Transport to the UCanGrow pack shed.
2
14:00 – 15:00
Making pigments: the history of rock art — blood, mud, bones and ash. Capturing nature with gum arabic and oils.
3
15:00 – 16:00
Field trip harvesting flowers, lichens, clays and rock sediment.
4
16:00 – 17:00
Making colour, storing colour, and drying down to pigments.
5
17:00 – 18:00
Natural pigments into watercolour, oil paints and cosmetics.
6
18:00 – 18:30
Key insights — each participant creates a small artwork to take home.

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The family holds the pencil. You author your own reality.— UCanGrow·Small plot. Big plan. Start where your feet are.·A seed doesn't argue with the soil. It just grows.·You don't need permission to start. You need one row planted.·Struggle is a stage, not a sentence.— Four S's·Consistency beats talent when talent doesn't show up.·Grow something today that feeds someone tomorrow.·Every harvest started as a decision nobody clapped for.·Your hustle is data. Log it, and it becomes credit.·One skill learned is one door unlocked.·The best time to plant was last season. The second best is now.·Ubuntu: I grow because we grow.·Rands follow rhythm — show up, record, repeat.·Stable is not the ceiling. It's the launch pad.·Dignity first, then the deal.— Dr Martin Burt·Feed your family, then feed your market.·You are three good habits away from a different year.·Off-takers buy reliability before they buy vegetables.·Big things grow in small beds.·Turn what you know into what you own.·The ladder only works if you take the next rung.·Significant means someone else climbs because of you.·Water the plan daily. Impatience kills more crops than drought.·Your community is your first customer and your best CV.·

The family holds the pencil. You author your own reality.— UCanGrow·Small plot. Big plan. Start where your feet are.·A seed doesn't argue with the soil. It just grows.·You don't need permission to start. You need one row planted.·Struggle is a stage, not a sentence.— Four S's·Consistency beats talent when talent doesn't show up.·Grow something today that feeds someone tomorrow.·Every harvest started as a decision nobody clapped for.·Your hustle is data. Log it, and it becomes credit.·One skill learned is one door unlocked.·The best time to plant was last season. The second best is now.·Ubuntu: I grow because we grow.·Rands follow rhythm — show up, record, repeat.·Stable is not the ceiling. It's the launch pad.·Dignity first, then the deal.— Dr Martin Burt·Feed your family, then feed your market.·You are three good habits away from a different year.·Off-takers buy reliability before they buy vegetables.·Big things grow in small beds.·Turn what you know into what you own.·The ladder only works if you take the next rung.·Significant means someone else climbs because of you.·Water the plan daily. Impatience kills more crops than drought.·Your community is your first customer and your best CV.·