Have you ever seen a prairie dotted with delicate, pale blue flowers? That may have been Blue Flax, or Linum lewisii. It’s a hardy yet beautiful plant to witness in nature, and luckily, you can grow ...

If you’re on the lookout for this type of plant, Linum grandiflorum, or Red Flax, is the perfect contender. This annual herb ...

Fashion designer Patrick Grant has helped to lead the project to grow flax in Blackburn and turn it into linen Back in April a team of about 30 volunteers started work on a grand plan - to grow ...

Grower Jossie Ellis found flax to be a fast-growing and easy crop to manage, with impressive resilience. "It took about 20 minutes to sow about 90 square metres of bed and then we have ignored it.

In a bid to curb climate impacts and improve traceability, Italian suppliers are trying to nearshore their raw materials. How ...

Tom MacCubbin gives advice on gardening in Florida including care of broccoli, pindo palms, tibouchina, California poppies, ...

Fast growing with break crop suitability, hemp can produce high-value fibres in a low-input system, with low nitrogen ...

Fitzpatrick, director of health and nutrition with the Flax Council of Canada. In animal studies, the plant omega-3 fatty acid found in flaxseed, called ALA, inhibited tumor incidence and growth.

Belarusian specialists have learned how to make good, thin fabrics and other goods that are in demand on world markets. We have essentially achieved a zero-waste operating cycle. However, there are ...

The journey for one of Luca Faloni’s linen shirts begins in the flax fields of Normandy, northern France, though, as the designer asserts, they are 100 per cent Italian in their construction.