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Budwig Muesli can be made in advance for travelling

Budwig-muesli with Skyr for Delicious healthy breakfasts (and desserts)

New ways to enjoy Flax Farm Linseed (Flaxseed) Oil and Ground Linseed with Skyr for breakfast or pudding. The Budwig muesli is creamy, fruity, rich [...]

Linseed meal flakes from cold-pressed linseed (flaxseed) oil production

Linseed Meal – Linseed Cake – for Livestock

Traditional Superfood for livestock Linseed “Meal” is what is left over from pressing linseed oil, in the past it was sometimes called linseed cake. It [...]

Ministry of Information First World War Official Collection College girls pulling flax in a field

Flax growing for linen

Flax for linen In the UK Linum Usitatissimum is “linseed” and “flax”. Different varieties have been developed over millennia some are better for producing seeds, [...]

A Sussex memory of the other sort of Flax

The other sort of Flax growing in Wartime Sussex This is about the sort of flax grown for producing linen. Two miles away, as the [...]

Healthy chocolate vegan mouse recipe made with no sugar, no-saturated fat but lots of linseed and banana

Sugar-free or cutting down sugar

Flax Farm Linseed if you are on a sugar-free diet or just trying to cut down Linseed is almost carb-free, it contains a mere 1% [...]

Hebe, aged eighteen and a half, Spring 2020 Chanctonbury

Budwig Diet for Dogs

Budwig Diet for Dogs Hebe, my dear old Springer Spaniel is now 19 and a few months. Prior to going on the Budwig diet [...]

Traditional implements for linen production on display in Booth Pinezhsky Museum.

Traditional flax production for linen

Prior to industrialisation even small farmers grew flax to produce linen for their own needs from home grown flax. In the UK and other Northern [...]

Tincloth, Tin cloth, Oilskin

Linseed for waterproof fabrics Linseed oil has a long history in making waterproof fabrics often including tincloth and oil-skin. Tincloth is a extra hard-wearing close woven [...]

The Flaxipedia has been written to celebrate the many unusual, historical, traditional and novel uses for linseed and flax. This amazing plant has had many uses throughout the history of mankind. Its name, Linum usitatissimum, even means “the most useful”

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