Flax plants in bloom at the PA Flax Project's square-yard plot in Philadelphia. WESA's local, independent journalism is only possible because of financial support from readers like you. Please support ...

On a smattering of farms across the United States, but especially in the rainy stretches of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes region, an increasing share of land is being devoted to flax. The ...

Bloodroot – Sanguinaria canadensis is one of the earliest blooming wildflowers in the woodland garden. This perennial native is in the poppy family, and gets its common name bloodroot, because the ...

You can trace the start of a small, striped piece of fabric to a humid July morning. That day, students harvested flax. Then they processed the fiber, spun it into yarn, dipped in dye and wove it into ...

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" - Thomas Huxley It was so pleasing to receive a knowledgeable response in the mail from an agronomist ...