PARK RIVER, N.D. -- As a girl, Esther Hylden insisted she'd never marry a farmer. She was wrong. Today, Hylden -- a farm wife for 30-plus years -- runs a growing decade-old business in Park River, N.D ...

Stephanie Stober once sold Mary Kay Cosmetics and raised exotic animals. Now, she and her family company are selling flax milk at Wal-Mart stores nationwide. "This is very exciting," she says.

Alvin Ulrich evaluates historic linen samples made from Oregon-grown flax at the Willamette Heritage Center in Salem, Ore. SALEM, Ore. — Over the past 70 years, fiber flax, once a major crop in the ...

Jennifer Green makes it look easy, grabbing a handful of dried flax stalks and beating away the rough outer casing to reveal long, soft, golden strands of fibre that can be spun and woven into linen.

CHICO — This flax is the good stuff. Local weaver and Chico Flax co-founder Sandy Fisher has been accepted into the Smithsonian Craft Show taking place April 20 at the National Building Museum in ...

With the opening of a $4 million organic flaxseed oil plant in Cherokee, Iowa, a growing number of Northwest Iowa farmers are looking to raise the crop. At a Feb. 1 meeting in Cherokee, they can learn ...

POLOTSK, 8 November (BelTA) – It is necessary to double the export and sales of flax goods over a five-year period. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the statement as he delivered a speech ...