“When you learn that the colors and make-up you use are sourced from children that will eventually die from poisoned lungs, you’ll want to use natural colors. That’s rare and expensive? That’s what I thought. So, I turned to making my own, and it’s so easy, fun and lucrative, that now kids, schools and business holders all over the planet are doing, too.”

Peter is a world expert on the ancestral craft of sourcing colors from plants. His personal use has grown to an educational program for sustainable development with practitioners in 30 countries.

The first time of making color from red cabbage is irresistible for children, youth and adults. There is something deeply archaic and magical that connects with our nervous system and sense of wonder. Everybody is captured by the colors dripping and moving on one’s plate. Forgotten are shiny electronic toys. (view how Ceci and Luis use this as a door for education on seeds, gardening and food) 

The low threshold approach to creating colors from free materials around us in nature for all sorts of uses like art, play, learning, therapy, dyeing, business, research etc. is wildly popular with educators from all walks of life.

Further aspects that are often overlooked are

• the ability to self-acquire skills of satisfactory professional quality for one’s own use, to create products for oneself, as gift, to sell to others, and to have a skill to train to others, also at school
• living the SDGs in Action. sevengardens truly covers all 17 SDGs
• research on ancestral crafts that can be found, learned from and complemented in all cultures and traditions on Earth; the field is truly fascinating. Did you know that some fairy tales are actually recipes for making color?

which are reasons why sevengardens is one of the best recognized UNESCO status initiatives on the planet. 

People initiated to sevengardens know that motivation, creativity, dreaming, sense of research and experimentation are strongly boosted by Peter’s humorous tales of his adventures, of good practice examples, of other real life practitioners that one can meet in the global sevengardens network, and guidance where to learn more and find answers to one’s questions …

That’s why we are beyond proud to include him in our Speakers line-up and encourage everyone to take part and enjoy the experience of meeting the master himself.