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Go natural for coloring Easter eggs

Posted on Apr 06, 2009 by Susie Collins in Blog, Healthy Living

With more people going green, natural egg dyes are making a comeback.

The Chattanooga Times reports natural ingredients gain favor for coloring Easter eggs.

Now, folks across the country are boiling cabbage, beets, blueberries and turmeric to create a range of colors and effects.

Some turn to natural dyes because they’re feeling crafty.

Sherry Johnson, co-owner of SheerLark Farm in Flat Rock, Ala., said natural dyes have become more popular in crafts. She uses them to dye her homegrown heritage wool for fiber art, for example.

She has explored natural egg dyes, she added, copying information from Web sites and trying out a few recipes when her children were young.

You can safely try beets, red and yellow onion skins, liquid chlorophyll, cabbage, coffee, green tea and chamomile, she said.

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Photo by Cobalt: These eggs are naturally colored, by the breed of the chickens my friend raises on her ranch near Casa Grande, Arizona. Starlene says that one of her hens always produces the green ones. The breed is called “Araucana’, nicknamed the Easter Egg chicken, with more information in the linked wikipedia article. These are just too pretty to do any other decorating with. Hope my grand-daughters enjoy them Easter morning. And with this image, my Easter greetings to all of you, my friends.

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