On a smattering of farms across the United States, but especially in the rainy stretches of the Pacific Northwest and the Great Lakes region, an increasing share of land is being devoted to flax. The ...

This spring, Erica Runkles spread a new seed in her kitchen garden and lined the crop with a border of shells collected by her late mother. The seeds sprouted, growing tall with light blue flowers, ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Michael Deyholos began as a “basic researcher” working with fruit flies. But he wanted “to get into something more useful.” He found it in flax: one of the world’s oldest, most ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A tiny Canadian startup company that is preparing to open a biodiesel plant in Toronto this spring says it will produce clean fuel, animal feed and human food all from the modest ...