Collaborating with Hawk & Handsaw Farm
exploring the value chain of flax processing for linen production
“A healthy textile system is a post-fossil fuel textile system and is localized by design. This is crucial not only due to the environmental toll of fossil fuels but also because it addresses both material composition and supply chain emissions. It is a system that is anchored in the bioeconomy — an economic system that stays within our biological limits.
I think a healthier system must consider three critical elements: supply chains, materials, and the very business model.”
-George Harding-Rolls, Global Policy Researcher and Advocacy Campaigner
Quick ABOUT US
Wood Spoon Farm is a human-ecology research collaborative exploring food and fiber sovereignty, more-than-human rights, and circular farming systems—cultivating a more joyful, relational, and regenerative future.
We partner with growers Rhode Island, Portugal, and Sweden to address issues facing our food and fiber systems.
We study how materials move:
soil → system → culture
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Ongoing Projects At Wood Spoon Farm
What we're working on in 2026
In 2026 our work moves across three interconnected areas of regenerative farm systems, regional textile economies (with a focus on flax) and artistic research of material intelligence.
Research spans geographies including partner sites and artists in the USA and in Europe.
Scaling For Flax Sake (SFFS)
The Wood Spoon Farm Farm Plan (FP)
Near Life Experience Artist Residency (ART RES)
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Completed projects by Wood Spoon Farm
For Flax Sake (2024-2025)
“Unlike cotton, machine produced linen isn’t superior to that made by hand; in fact, hand-processed flax fiber generally produces finer linen cloth. For this reason, the linen industry never became as industrialized as cotton or wool and as a result linen is usually more expensive to manufacture.”
-Andrian Paquette, Curator Slater Mill
