Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum Flax Harvest, July 2021

My thanks to Joanne Ranck-Dirks of Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum's Heirloom Seed Project for these photos of the recent flax harvest.

Tall green straw-like flax stalks with small white seed heads on top - ready to be pulled up by the roots for drying
A field of flax ready to be harvested


6 people in blue jeans, workshirts and caps harvest and bundle flax plants. A pile of plants is in the foreground
Staff and volunteers at Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum harvesting flax


A young volunteer in jeans, white shirt, and red gloves bundles flax with other volunteers in the background
When you're the grandchild of a volunteer, sometimes you get in on the act, too!


Man in jeans, green shirt and cap stacks bundles of flax upright to dry
Landis Valley's Farm and Garden Manager, Joe Schott, stacks flax bundles to begin drying 


Man in workpants, green shirt, and sun hat holding a bundle of flax, surrounded by unharvested plants
Site administrator David Blackburn enjoys his first Landis Valley flax harvest