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Growing flax for fibre in Co. Tyrone, Ireland. Working towards regenerative, hyperlocal textiles.

12/04/2026

Blossom and blue sky at the farm yesterday.
Waiting for the first swallow to arrive, we’ve seen them around Lough Neagh so it won’t be long. There’s still a bit of frost in the mornings but it’s feeling like the end of a very long winter.
We had a great day firing up the scutching turbine. We were sure this fibre was over retted when we had it out on the field. It rained day after day and we just couldn’t get it dried but it’s actually some of the best we’ve processed, a gorgeous colour and coming out beautifully clean.

27/02/2026

'The volunteers marvel at what can be achieved when they pull together as sheaves, stand together as stooks...'

We've just spent a couple of days in Clonakilty at the kind invitation of . She had suggested to a few people that they might plant some flax around the town. She said the general response was 'Sounds good, how can we help? ', it snowballed a bit and so we found ourselves in the , a roomful of people talking about how we might plant flax in plots all over the town.

It was the perfect venue, having just won Best Sustainable Wedding Venue. The ONeill family and their team walk the walk. You can see it in the gardens, the food, the composting, the solar and all the little touches., and in the way they support their community through projects like this.

have helped to find the plots. They have been active in the town for decades, and it shows. Not just in how the town looks but in how the community acts, that 'how can we help' attitude. They see the problems of fast fashion first hand at the recycling bins, they get it.

The project won't be short of expertise, , local farms, the Women's shed .ie and Fernhill grounds team were all there getting into the technical details.

Creative forces and .scallan are supporting, organising, designing and inspiring. listened, drew, and beautifully captured the journey so far and the hopes for the future.

hosted an evening session where we plotted and planned surrounded by their spectacular Samhain masks, all made from natural materials. Imagine costumes made from flax fibre.

Our friend Malu spoke about their mission to rebuild textile production in a better way. This is Clon making a start.

Momentum is building in Clonakilty thanks to the power of community, a fair bit of conviviality and the force of nature that is

Thanks for the best welcome and hospitality. Feels like the start of something amazing.

23/01/2026

Daisy.

We’ve planted a tree in the orchard in memory of Daisy who spent her whole life here on the farm and died this week, aged 16.
If you’ve ever visited you may have noticed her quietly pottering around the yard.
If you sowed flax or joined us for a harvest, she would have supervised your work from the sidelines, helping herself to the odd flaxseed.
If you took a photo, there’s a good chance she managed to make her way into the shot.
She’ll be very missed around here.

21/12/2025

The winter solstice marks a turning point in the year, when we look forward to the brighter days ahead and a stretch in the evenings. We’re incredibly grateful to for these beautiful images that capture the journey through the seasons here on Mallon Farm so beautifully.

01/12/2025

The Mallon Linen Field to Fabric Box

Developed to tell the story of growing and processing flax into linen. The box contains a selection of flax fibre in all forms, hand spun linen yarn, a swatch of linen and a fact sheet about our processes. Find out more through the link in our bio

20/10/2025

Join us for a farm visit this Saturday 25th October. The visit will include a guided farm walk and a tour of the scutching mill along with lots of chat about growing and processing flax regeneratively. Spaces are limited; please use the link below for more details and booking :

https://mallonlinen.co.uk/product/visit-to-mallon-farm/

14/10/2025

It means a lot when people take an interest in our work. Hosting a visit from The Prince and Princess of Wales really gives us confidence that this emerging community of flax growers and processors are starting to make an impact. We spoke about the importance of nature friendly farming, of putting sustainability right at the heart of all our processes and of the need for collaboration to build a better and fairer textile system. Thanks to and their team who made it all such an enjoyable experience. Thanks to Tiernan Stuart, Mario , Amy and Joel for coming along and demonstrating how a sustainable supply chain, based on shared values, might function.

18/09/2025

He sowed the seed. Our journey into flax has been supported by many friends and family, but as we bring in the last of the flax from the field we are reflecting on how much our Dad and Charlie’s father-in-law did to help us. He got excited about the idea along with us, he showed us how to sow the seeds and he was there for every sowing and every harvest.
He found the wood for the mill floor. He found the scutching turbine and he made all the windows in the mill by hand. He invented tools and techniques. He sought out people who knew about flax and machinery and he brought back golden snippets of information, or often he brought them to visit.
He told stories, sang songs, opened the wine and encouraged us to enjoy the moment and ‘let the handbrake off’. He was a reformed intensive farmer turned passionate conservationist, always sharing his seasonal observations: when the swallows arrived and left, which flowers the bees were working, where the salmon were spawning.
He was passionate about caring for our rivers and advised us on how to develop environmentally responsible retting methods, sourcing an upcycled cheese vat for us to use as a retting tank.
We lost him in June but felt his gentle presence in the field as we harvested the last flax crop he planted, with a sense of loss and also gratitude. He sowed the seed.

27/08/2025

Come celebrate the flax harvest this weekend! It will be packed with presentations, panel discussions, craft demonstrations, a farm visit, music & poetry.
Brought to you by Fibreshed Ireland, Mallon Linen, Brink!, artpark Hoher Berg and the Linen Biennale Northern Ireland.

See the full schedule and book tickets here:

https://fibreshedireland.ie/the-flax-meitheal-harvest-celebration/

30/01/2025

Update: This event is now fully booked.

In an effort to build a fairer, more sustainable textile industry, teams from both Scotland and Northern Ireland have been working to reinvent processing equipment for natural fibres.

This work will be installed in Belfast Exposed as part of the ‘The Clean Blue of Linen’ exhibition by Yvette Monahan, in collaboration with The Gaia Foundation’s campaign “We Feed The UK”. We invite designers, engineers, textile workers, artists, coders, developers, fashion students, robotics specialists to join this challenge. Explore how natural fibre is processed and get involved in designing open-source machinery that can transform an industry.

Hosted by Fantasy Fibre Mill, Tiernan Stuart and Mallon Linen.

10/01/2025

What a treat to catch an all too brief glimpse of some of our fellow flax enthusiasts . This event sets the tone for the year a head. Full of hope, inspiration and new ideas. It's intense but fun, so many brilliant conversations. We are refreshed and ready for the challenge ahead, knowing we are part of something much, much bigger and unstoppable. . Thanks to for introducing us to this brilliant event.

08/01/2025

Flax is part of a seven year crop rotation on the farm. We grow a variety of crops to help build resilience. This Thursday I’ll be participating in a panel at the called Across The Water: Food Stories From Northern Ireland. Along with Beth Bell and Cormac Dolan , I’ll be there speaking about our experiences with , a group of farmers from our area who have come together to supply local families with weekly vegetable boxes, supported by the (an FFCC project). We believe that the principles of short supply chains are the same for everything we grow.

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Moneymore
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http://www.mallonlinen.com/, https://mallonlinen.co.uk/challenge/

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