So, two years after your original post, Raven, I come in from the not-so-hot sun where I've been pulling
flax for a drink of lemonade and a break and I see this post. I guess I am engaged, at the moment, in just what you suggest, growing your own clothes. I would be interested in sharing flax-growing information with anybody growing flax. I'm about to embark on something like research to see if I can design a seven-year rotation which will be good for my
land, will grow some small grains and legumes I can eat AND grow flax every seventh year. All that and I want to use a Fukuoka-inspired method for the growing.
And in roughly 1 week I'm going to plant some
perennial flax to see if I can make that work for growing fiber.
Skill-sharing I'm totally up for! And I would certainly check out any
course offerings you come up with. I've used your book on flax a lot and passed out a picture from it along with the bibliographical info on it at a craft fair where my daughter and I were demonstrating processing flax.
Then there's using foraged fibers--I've got some
nettles retting in a barrel right now, but I haven't really figured out how to get the fiber out of them easily
enough to want to pursue it.
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