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Sowing flax on Mallon Farm
The fields here on Mallon Farm have seen flax before, generations before, but like many farms here, they had been con...
The Ballinderry River
The beautiful Ballinderry River, running from the Sperrins through to Lough Neagh, was an important part of the linen...
Handmade Oxford 2022
We are excited to be attending Handmade Oxford, another wonderful event from the Handmade in Britain team at the beau...
Linen Wedding Anniversary
Linen is associated with the fourth wedding anniversary. The aristocrat of textiles and mankind’s oldest fibre, linen...
2021 on Mallon Farm
As we start a new year, we've been reflecting on some of the events of 2021 here on Mallon Farm.
Tradition Restarted: Scutching Flax at Mallon Farm
Scutching is the process of taking off all the other outer parts of the flax plant to leave the long fibres. Back in ...
The Flax Harvest at Mallon Farm
Traditionally, flax is harvested 100 days after being sown. So far that has been our experience here at Mallon Farm, ...
Biodiversity on Mallon Farm
We’re applying to join the “Fair to Nature Scheme” backed by the RSPB and are currently doing an audit of biodiversit...
Tradition Restarted: Sowing Flax
Three acres have now been sown by hand.
Once again this year we used a traditional tool for broadcasting seeds ...
River Friendly Retting at Mallon Farm
Retting was the one part of the process that we knew we needed to change if we wanted to restart linen growing here. ...
Tradition Restarted: The Process of Growing Flax at Mallon Farm
Charlie Mallon has reintroduced flax to his farm in County Tyrone. He is committed to growing and processing flax usi...
Tradition Restarted: The Reintroduction of Flax to Mallon Farm
All the flax grown at the Mallon farm in Northern Ireland has been harvested by hand, picked and processed using trad...