10/09/2026
**A hundred years in the making**
This is flax, freshly harvested here at The Lint Mill — our first time growing it. Fitting, given our name: archaeological digs on our mill lade found evidence it was processing flax into linen back in the 19th century, part of a trade that once ran right across this region before cotton took over.
The blue flowers have given way to seed now, but it's the stalks we're after — the part that becomes linen fibre. Barely enough here for a handkerchief, but we're having a go anyway.
Sometimes the point isn’t the yield. It’s closing a loop that’s been open for a hundred years.
