#flax — Public Fediverse posts
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Gardens draw visitors from Eastern North Carolina | Features https://www.allforgardening.com/1934146/gardens-draw-visitors-from-eastern-north-carolina-features/ #agriculture #botany #CalendulaOfficinalis #EdiblePlants #flax #flower #garden #gardening #GardeningNorthCarolina #Herb #horticulture #KitchenGarden #NorthCarolina #plant #PlantAgriculture #plants #PlantsAndHumans #Tagetes #textile #Tomato #Vegetable
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Growing a fiber revolution in Pennsylvania starts with the smallest flax gardens [photos] | Home & Garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1926340/growing-a-fiber-revolution-in-pennsylvania-starts-with-the-smallest-flax-gardens-photos-home-garden/ #agriculture #flax #gardening #GardeningPennsylvania #LandisValley #pennsylvania #textiles
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CW: flax vs bamboo
I might be wrong about this, but I have the impression that flax and bamboo fabrics are pretty different kettles of fish.
- Flax is already sort of stringy and close to being a thread in the way it grows.
- Bamboo is more like a raw material: you extract a liquid or sludge which can be used to make artificial thread, but you need possibly quite unpleasant chemicals to actually do the process and make the thread.
So in my mind, flax is genuinely wonderful stuff & should have its praises sung more often, whereas "made from bamboo" sounds greener than it really is.
Perhaps someone more expert can say if that impression is basically correct!
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More flax processing tools.
The left one is used for breaking the stalks around the fibers.
Then there's various combs for refining the fibers. And a few for storing yarn once its spun on a spinning wheel.
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#parallèle 15 mars 2022, sable sur la grève à marée basse à Kerfissien - 12 juillet 2026, lin à rouir, sur un champ à Commana.
L'autre jour, alors que je photographiais les andains de lin je m'imaginais sur une grève à marée basse.March 15, 2022, sand on the beach at low tide in Kerfissien - July 12, 2026, flax ready for retting in a field in Commana.
The other day, as I was photographing the rows of flax, I imagined myself on a beach at low tide.Bonne semaine !
#diptyque #monochrome #bnw #liniculture #flax #lin #Bretagne #Finistere #photo #sand
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Bonjour,
Le rouissage du #lin textile a démarré dans les champs.
https://bretagne.en-photo.fr/2026/juillet/index.html#40 et suivantesSi j'ai bien compris l'ouvrier conduisant l'arracheuse dans un champ voisin et qui m'a invité à monter à bord de la cabine un peu plus tard, le lin de ce champ-ci a été arraché il y a trois jours.
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Ça y est, les photos #embedded depuis la cabine de l'arracheuse de #lin sont en ligne à https://bretagne.en-photo.fr/2026/juillet/index.html#40 et suivantes.
J'aime beaucoup le rendu monochrome en noir et blanc des andains de lin (racines, tiges, branches avec les fruits) bien alignés sur le champ. Cette machine, venue de Normandie, peut servir aussi bien à arracher (et non couper pour conserver un maximum de longueur aux fibres) du lin que du chanvre.#photography #bnw #liniculture #flax #linen #Bretagne #Finistere
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Hier matin, en route vers une rencontre de la fratrie sur la côte léonarde, au Dossen [ouaiiiis 😊] au frais [ouaiiiis 😊] je suis passé par Commana, pour revoir les champs de lin. Si dans la plupart, le lin avait déjà été arraché, le travail était en cours dans celui-ci, et je me suis arrêté pour photographier de plus près… Coup de bol, l'ouvrier m'a gentiment proposé d'embarquer… J'ai évidemment accepté.
#photography #lin #linen #liniculture #bnw #Bretagne #Finistere #flax #diptyque #diptych #embedded
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Alex Muir, Flax Exhibition: From Seed to Cloth, UHI Orkney
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It’s been a low energy few days but I kept my hands occupied!
Dug out a dusty bag of flax top fibre, my cobwebbed drop spindle and got to work learning (or continuing to learn) spinning by hand. Here’s my humble first tiny cake of 2 ply cordage. Coarse, uneven but cute. 😝
No idea what I’m going to use it for ha.
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I found this great piece about #AcornBread -- written by a friend who I learned to make acorn bread from!
by Chris Knapp"In autumn, all over the world, something wonderful happens: The acorns fall.
"The oak seed, which once sustained the bulk of human civilization, is now largely ignored as a food. Not so at our #Koviashuvik Local Living School (in #TempleME), where every fall my family, friends, apprentices and I spend three wonderful mornings crawling around in the nearby red oak grove picking up acorns. We are not playing; we are making a living and playing.
"This article offers a practical guide to processing acorns, a glance at the crop’s agricultural implications, and a chance to change the world – for as with any food or product, its conscious production and consumption create powerful opportunities for social and environmental change.
Using Acorns
"My family eats acorns in a variety of ways and uses 200 pounds of acorn flour a year. All our acorns come from the red oak, Quercus rubra, as that is our local oak. All acorns – whether from red or white oaks – are edible and all acorns contain enough tannin that leaching is a necessity.
"Our daily bread is a delicious blend of 60 percent acorn and 40 percent sourdough #spelt from the Webb Family Farm in #PittstonME. We make #AcornOatmeal #porridge twice a week for breakfast with 50 to 75 percent acorn. My kids, ages 4 and 2, eat it right up!
"We make biscuits and cookies. I like a dense, 95 percent acorn flat bread held together with 5 percent soaked ground #flax. For a basic biscuit recipe that will please anyone, combine 2 cups of acorn flour with 1 cup of oat flour, add 2 tablespoons of good fat and 1/2 teaspoon salt. (For fat we use Maine-grown sunflower oil or lard.) Add water to make a moist but not runny batter. Form the batter into biscuits and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 375 F. Will Bonsall ate a whole bowl of these crackers when we shared them with him."
Learn more:
https://www.mofga.org/resources/recipes/acorn-bread/#SolarPunkSunday #AlternativeGrains #Acorns #WildEdibles #Foraging #MOFGA #Maine #FoodSecurity
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#Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae. It is cultivated as a food and fiber crop in regions of the world with temperate climates. In 2022, France produced 75% of the world's supply of flax.
