Spent yesterday scutching my flax. Next step will be spinning #1m2vlas #flax

I found this great piece about #AcornBread -- written by a friend who I learned to make acorn bread from!

by Chris Knapp

"In autumn, all over the world, something wonderful happens: The acorns fall.

"The oak seed, which once sustained the bulk of human civilization, is now largely ignored as a food. Not so at our #Koviashuvik Local Living School (in #TempleME), where every fall my family, friends, apprentices and I spend three wonderful mornings crawling around in the nearby red oak grove picking up acorns. We are not playing; we are making a living and playing.

"This article offers a practical guide to processing acorns, a glance at the crop’s agricultural implications, and a chance to change the world – for as with any food or product, its conscious production and consumption create powerful opportunities for social and environmental change.

Using Acorns

"My family eats acorns in a variety of ways and uses 200 pounds of acorn flour a year. All our acorns come from the red oak, Quercus rubra, as that is our local oak. All acorns – whether from red or white oaks – are edible and all acorns contain enough tannin that leaching is a necessity.

"Our daily bread is a delicious blend of 60 percent acorn and 40 percent sourdough #spelt from the Webb Family Farm in #PittstonME. We make #AcornOatmeal #porridge twice a week for breakfast with 50 to 75 percent acorn. My kids, ages 4 and 2, eat it right up!

"We make biscuits and cookies. I like a dense, 95 percent acorn flat bread held together with 5 percent soaked ground #flax. For a basic biscuit recipe that will please anyone, combine 2 cups of acorn flour with 1 cup of oat flour, add 2 tablespoons of good fat and 1/2 teaspoon salt. (For fat we use Maine-grown sunflower oil or lard.) Add water to make a moist but not runny batter. Form the batter into biscuits and bake for 15 to 20 minutes at 375 F. Will Bonsall ate a whole bowl of these crackers when we shared them with him."

Learn more:
https://www.mofga.org/resources/recipes/acorn-bread/

#SolarPunkSunday #AlternativeGrains #Acorns #WildEdibles #Foraging #MOGFA #Maine #FoodSecurity

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#Heckling (or "hackling") is the last of three steps in dressing #flax, or preparing the fibers to be spun. It splits and straightens the flax fibers, as well as removes the fibrous core and impurities.[1] Flax is pulled through

#Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae. It is cultivated as a food and fiber crop in regions of the world with temperate climates. In 2022, France produced 75% of the world's supply of flax.

#Flax, also known as common flax or linseed, is a flowering plant, Linum usitatissimum, in the family Linaceae. It is cultivated as a food and fiber crop in regions of the world with temperate climates. In 2022, France produced 75% of the world's supply of flax.

@dgoodwin

Flax in bloom is awfully pretty, too, but I don't know if they grow it in PEI. Heck, I didn't know they grew canola there - I'm in the prairies, where there are bazillions of acres of both.

#flax #canola #bloom

Plant progress
#growallthethings #flowers #cactus #bromeliad #flax #bloomscrolling

Flax after weeding and 16 days after sowing. This year I'm participating in 1m2vlas - a project that promotes small-scale flax production and processing in the Netherlands and Belgium. #1m2vlas #flax

Akaroa has some legions. One hundred and forty years ago two boys created their own by making a raft out of flax and set off home across the harbour. They had delivered a horse for their father, but decided they didn't want to walk back the way they came, so they rafted.
The local school has been following the challenge over the years on more modern builds, but now it's time to test the real thing.Raupo and flax
It's great to see kids are still up to challenges in today's world.
#flax
#rafts