I mean-- flax seed isn't crazy expensive, it doesn't seem, but it still seems like it'd be worthwhile to save seeds. Also I was considering for the future that it might be worth exploring using the flaxseed to feed the chickens and pigs on the farm, so it might be worth doing a few experiments to see what kind of yields are possible. I'd have to talk that over with Zack tho, he might not be working on his grow-your-own-feed project as much, or might not have flax on his radar for that. (People badly want the animals not to be fed on soy, but it's industry standard. I've no idea what kind of nutritional profile flaxseed gives, and I think it's all marketing to feed chickens flaxseed and there's no proof it really improves the Omega-3 profile in the eggs, but it is marketing.

If you want, I'll buy the plans, or see if I can get a copy some other way (if some of these places have them, still, from when they made theirs, or something) (not like I wouldn't support artisans, just, y'know). Though, the place that sells the plans also sells flax stricks and tops, imported from Sweden.

(Dude has this low-key plan to go visit his ancestral homeland in Latvia sometime and I was like "if we go there can we try to get a tour of an industrial flax facility in Lithuania while we're over there" and he was like "LOL")

The one historic site, she kept saying Lancaster, which is one of the southtowns just out of Buffalo, and finally I looked it up and it's LANCASTER PA that is NOT CLOSE. Ha!