Flax is Linen, Linen is Flax

This week on the Hemp Podcast we shift gears a little bit and talk about flax. We go to Kneehigh Farm to meet Pennsylvania Flax Project founders Heidi Barr and Emma de Long who hosted a flax harvest educational event last week in Chester County, Pa.

Heidi Barr wants you to know that flax is linen and linen is flax.

A fiber artist based in Philadelphia, Barr co-founded the Pennsylvania Flax Project with Chester County farmer Emma de Long in 2020, “out of a desire to see a climate-beneficial textile crop produced regionally,” she said.

“The synthetic textile industry is the prime example of an industry that exploits both human labor and the natural world,” and is responsible for a tenth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, Barr said.

In this episode we talk to Barr and de Long, as well as a handful of people who attended the event to learn about flax. Plus Hemp News Nuggets and upcoming hemp events.

Pennsylvania Flax Project

https://paflaxproject.com/

Kitchen Garden Textiles
https://www.kitchengardentextiles.com/

Kneehigh Farm
https://www.kneehighfarm.com/

News Nugs and Hemp Events
To protect consumers, make CBD medicine only, restrict delta-8 THC to pot shops
https://hemptoday.net/to-protect-consumers-make-cbd-medicine-only-restrict-delta-8-thc-to-pot-shops/

Industrial hemp plant in eastern Idaho will soon begin production
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2023/08/industrial-hemp-plant-in-eastern-idaho-will-soon-begin-production/

Whitefield Global Holdings
https://www.whitefieldglobal.com/

Hart Hemp Field Day Sept. 7
Hart Hemp
https://harthempco.com/

Cornell Grain & Fiber Hemp Field Day Sept. 14
https://hemp.cals.cornell.edu/2023/08/11/cornell-grain-fiber-hemp-field-day-sept-14/

Cornell's Hemp Sciences MPS Concentration
https://cals.cornell.edu/school-integrative-plant-science/degrees-programs/mps-degree/hemp-sciences-concentration

Thanks to our Sponsors

IND HEMP
https://indhemp.com/

Mpactful Ventures
https://www.mpactfulventures.org/

Music:
Tin Bird Shadow
https://tinbirdshadow.bandcamp.com/album/dot-dot-dot