Flax Museum

Linseed Meal – Linseed Cake – for Livestock

Traditional Superfood for livestock Linseed “Meal” is what is left over from pressing linseed oil, [...]

Flax growing for linen

Flax for linen In the UK Linum Usitatissimum is “linseed” and “flax”.  Different varieties have [...]

A Sussex memory of the other sort of Flax

The other sort of Flax  growing in Wartime Sussex This is about the sort of [...]

Linseed: Artists’ Oils

Any artists out there? Linseed’s (flax) Latin name is Linum usitatissimum which means “the most [...]

Traditional flax production for linen

Prior to industrialisation even small farmers grew flax to produce linen for their own needs [...]

Harvesting Linseed and Flax

Linseed and flax are grown differently Both linseed and flax, which are simply different varieties [...]

Linseed stops cows belching methane

Daily Telegraph story: Linseed stops cows belching methane Essential fatty acid for health and prevents [...]

Bolls

Linseed and flax terminology Bolls are the pods which contain the ripening seeds of flax or linseed [...]

How a shirt grew in the field

Children’s book by K. D Ushinskiai, adapted by Marguerita Rudolph and illustrated by Yaroslavava I was introduced to [...]

New Yorker cartoon: Flax is this year’s tofu

“Flax is this year’s tofu” When  Flax Farm first had a stall at Borough Market we were [...]

Linseed and recipes to boost the metabolism

In Northern India linseed is a winter food In colder parts of Northern India people eat [...]

Old linseed & flax remedies

Some fascinating remedies from our collection Linseed has had a great reputation for soothing the [...]