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Vermont Woman Grows Flax, Makes Linen to Fight Fast Fashion

8/29/2026

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Eve Ogden Schaub is cultivating flax in Vermont to hand-make a linen dress.
She converted a 600 sq ft garden into a flax plot in April 2025.
She harvested two flax crops and began retting, breaking, scutching, hackling, spinning, and scouring.
She is growing indigo for dyeing and will weave the linen on a large loom.
She posts Instagram videos to highlight fast-fashion waste and health impacts.

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Story summary

Eve Ogden Schaub is cultivating flax in Vermont to hand-make a linen dress.
She converted a 600 sq ft garden into a flax plot in April 2025.
She harvested two flax crops and began retting, breaking, scutching, hackling, spinning, and scouring.
She is growing indigo for dyeing and will weave the linen on a large loom.
She posts Instagram videos to highlight fast-fashion waste and health impacts.