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 ...
SALEM, Ore. — Over the past 70 years, fiber flax, once a major crop in the Willamette Valley, has virtually vanished from Oregon. But a new initiative called Fibrevolution aims to revive this ...
Rain has poured down on Canada's prairie provinces, and that's sent U.S. flax prices shooting upward. But higher prices -- roughly $2 per bushel more than a month ago -- have come too late to be of ...
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 ...