ABOUT
At Drift Lab, we co-create experiences and resources that help you rediscover your place in your place. Whether you're concocting natural dyes with your hands, heading out on a group hike, or diving into one of our audio courses, we're here to help you feel that connection to yourself, to your place, to each other, again.
Our work lives at the intersection of creativity, ecology, and wonder. We offer material resources like thoughtfully crafted audiobooks, card decks, and homeschool guides alongside hands-on, in person experiences like plant walks and natural dye workshops. Each offering is designed to help you see the world, and yourself, and each other, a little differently.
There is no eco-anxiety here. There will be no guilt-tripping you to act against climate catastrophe. Instead, we're creating space for curiosity, play, and the kind of learning that happens when you slow down long enough to notice what's already alive around you.
Because when we remember that we're part of something bigger. Something that’s breathing, growing, and interconnected, we naturally start to care for it differently. And maybe, just maybe, we start to imagine new ways of being in the world.
Like, in a fun way.
about sarah and jess
We're Sarah and Jess, co-founders of Drift Lab Earth. We're nationally certified educators with a combined 4 decades and 4 degrees in education, but we also do work in textile art, community advocacy, organizing community art projects, supporting local systems & regenerative farming, working with textile supply chains, parenting--the list goes on, just as your list does, too.
We believe when we immerse ourselves in living, creative projects- be they surface design to cover a stain on an old t-shirt, designing a garden plot, working with plant dyes, writing a zine, cooking a meal, etc.- beauty and questions we didn’t even know we had come into play. Through our personal experience, we know that feeling is magnified when shared in community.
We’ve spent decades in classrooms, schools, barns, living rooms, backyards, and more huddling over dyepots and other creative projects having emergent discussions about life, art, systems, relationships, health, culture, and the list goes on.
Launching a large amount of projects and mentoring folks through their own has taught us a thing or two about how connected all of this co-creative work is. We’ve worked in the educational system, the healthcare system, the agricultural system, and in the textiles system. What we’ve seen is not unlike what many of you have already noticed: extraction reigns supreme, and scarcity & separation unconsciously guide our actions in the micro and macro as humans.
Where we find brightness and life is in (no surprise) the living! And, so, we’ll continue to focus there, to amplify that which is in front of our noses (and, also, is our noses!) and to bring folks together to pause and create and ask questions and get to know each other and see the beauty in what is around us. Sure, to ultimately become good caretakers of this living world and to change the future towards a more regenerative earth, but, maybe even more importantly: to be present in beauty and each other. Which maybe even changes the world more than all of our human schemes for better worlds, who knows!