Once upon a time there were two young women, one who was pretty, and one who was plain. They spent their days sowing flax seeds, with the pretty one working on the hills and the plain one in the ...

Oilseed crops could help Midwestern farmers reduce costs for fuel, fertilizer and animal feed -- at least, that’s the idea that researchers at The Ohio State University are exploring. Grown for their ...

Surplus biomass from the production of flax sheaves, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol.

One of the prettiest blues in the garden (or on the roadside) is the blue flax flower. This flower is a common sighting in early summer. It’s everywhere this time of year — from late spring to early ...

Once the blue flowers of the flax crop carpeted the countryside of Scotland. Now the flowers are blooming once again in a celebration of the linen industry that supported thousands of livelihoods for ...

Skyla Bedford-Rolleston has been spreading some random joy in her community. Photo / Supplied A Tamatea Intermediate School student has been spreading joy in her community with random acts of flax ...

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. - People could sniff flowers, look at figs on a tree and see more than a half-acre plot of asparagus during the horticulture tour that was part of the University of Missouri ...

It might be three flying ducks, but it's a world away from the trio that once adorned Hilda Ogden's wall in Corrie. These stainless steel mallards can now be sighted soaring on an arc of flax flowers ...

Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in spring, can be used to produce bioethanol.