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The Flax Harvest 2023
We had a wonderful start to the flax harvest this year on Saturday 19th August. After a wet and windy start to the da...
The Wee Blue Blossom 2023
The flowers that appear on the flax are affectionately known here as "the wee blue blossom" and it's always a great m...
June News
Flax update: We're looking forward to seeing the beautiful flowers in a few weeks. They appear for 12 hours and are ...
The Flax Countdown
May has been a busy month on Mallon Farm. Again this year, the wet spring prevented us from sowing the flax as early ...
The Celtic Festival of Beltane
Beltane is the Celtic May Day festival celebrated on the first of May. It was considered an important festival in the...
Irish Grown Flax Fibre now on sale
On 31st March we were excited to launch our own fibre for sale on this website. It's a journey that started nearly si...
March Hares
The hare features in many Celtic stories, handed down from generation to generation. It was a sacred and mystical ani...
Saint Patrick's Day
The famous patron saint of Ireland, Patrick was a missionary in the fifth century. Saint Patrick's Day falls on the 1...
Love Stories from Celtic Mythology
It is hard to think of many Celtic legends that don't have love as an integral theme running through them; some end w...
Birds in Celtic Mythology
Fiacc is Irish for raven and our limited edition Mallon bronze sculptures were inspired by the raven in the tragic Ir...
The Celtic Festival of Imbolc
Today is the Celtic festival of Imbolc, traditionally celebrated on the first of February through to sunset on the s...
The Scutching Machine
A few years ago we purchased a Mackie's scutching machine that had lain in pieces in a barn for many decades. We thin...