The Exciting Arrival of the Wee Blue Blossom!
In Northern Ireland flax flowers are often called the ‘wee blue blossom’. Find out more about the flowers and where to find them.
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The weird mystery of the Frankenstein flax scutcher
Is it Mackies, Union, Depoortere or Van Hauwaert – the mystery of who made the flax scutcher? What is scutching? Scutching is the process of taking off all the outer
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River Friendly Retting in a Repurposed Cheese Vat
While this year’s crop of flax is around halfway through its growing period, we are still busy with retting last year’s crop. Retting is the process of breaking down the flax to
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Sowing flax for fibre; a revival of Irish Grown Linen
Mallon Farm is around fifty acres and has always been nature friendly throughout its history. It was a mixed farm for years and even when, like many other farms here,
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