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Marmite Linseed (Flax) Crackers with Seeds (Gluten-free)

Gluten-free, quick and easy I was told about making gluten-free linseed crackers this way by [...]

Salsa Verde with Flaxseed Oil

Traditional or experiment – your choice There is a tradition of green sauces in many [...]

Recommendation for using linseed for anxiety

“Flax Oil Cures Anxiety” from the EarthClinic website. In a cutting from an unidentified newspaper passed [...]

The origins and history of linseed and flax

The origins of the linseed and flax Linum usitatissimum is just one species of the Linum family. Some [...]

Culpeper’s Herbal: FLAX

Flax (linseed) remedies from Culpeper’s Complete Herbal, by Nicholas Culpeper, 1653 The entry for flax/linseed [...]

Linseed: flax and its other names

Linum usitatissimum Linseed was one of the first plants cultivated by man at least as [...]

Remove foreign substance from the eye

How to get something out of your eye Using linseed to get grit and other particles out of [...]

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Linnet

Linnet: the linseed bird Whilst looking through my Complete Book of British Birds, I was [...]

Gold or bronze, yellow or brown?

Q: What is the difference between gold and bronze linseed (flaxseed)? A:The original  variety of [...]

Old Fashioned flax harvesting

Northern Ireland flax and linen In the last couple of centuries flax was an important [...]

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 [...]