Flax Seeds

Flax Seeds

Class	Gardening
Weight	0.02
Animal Feed	Seeds for birds
Hunger	-1
Calories	71
Crafting Skill	None
Crafting	See How to Craft
Location	Crafted
Spawn ID	`/additem Base.FlaxSeed`

Flax Seeds are the small oily seeds of the flax plant. They serve as seed stock, as a cooking spice and as feed for birds.

Farmers grow them for the flax plant, and cooks can add them to food. Flax is an autumn crop, sown late in the summer and into the fall. The seeds can also be milled into Seed Paste at a Stone Mill. They weigh almost nothing, so a large stock is easy to carry.

The seeds come from opening a Seed Packet - Flax or from rippling dried flax at a Ripple Comb. The Farmer is the best occupation for gardening. It starts with the most Agriculture skill.

Using

The seeds are sown in a garden plot. The plant grows for about 432 hours before harvest. That is eighteen days of game time. Each plant gives two to four at harvest.

Sowing season runs through August, September and October. September is the best month to plant. The crop does badly in June and July, so midsummer sowing is a poor choice.

The Ripple Flax recipe gets seed back from the field. It turns one Flax (Dried) into Flax (Rippled) and Flax Seeds at a Ripple Comb. That gives rippled flax and seed for next year from one plant.

In the kitchen, flax seeds are a spice. They can be added to a salad, bread or muffins. They fill only a little hunger on their own.

The Mill Seeds recipe turns thirty seeds into one Seed Paste at a Stone Mill. Hemp Seeds work in the same recipe, so the two can be mixed.

The seeds are also animal feed. The game marks them as seeds for birds.

Seeds can be stored in packets. The Put 5 Seeds in Packet recipe fills an Empty Seed Packet - Flax with five seeds. Opening a Seed Packet - Flax gives five seeds back.