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!