Union Farm (part of Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse), Beetley Meadows, Dereham NR20 4DR
18 July – 1 Nov 2026
Our We Feed The UK touring exhibition continues, journeying to a centuries-old working farm in Norfolk, home to the county’s museum of rural life.
Photographer Yvette Monahan and Hot Poet Abby Oliveira spent a season documenting the revival of nature-friendly flax for fibre in Northern Ireland. Their work is exhibited next door to Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse’s Flax and Fleece Project, where volunteers are growing flax and processing fleece: both an important part of Norfolk’s textile past.
On Mallon Farm in County Tyrone, Helen Keys and Charlie Mallon are once again growing the “wee blue blossom” as part of a patchwork of potatoes, grass and oats; sown with a fiddle, grown chemical-free, gathered by hand, retted in rainwater, scutched on a restored turbine, and threaded into local supply chains. The bees followed the flax, then the flocks of linnet, and finally a community of humans who lend many hands to the hard work.
The Clean Blue of Linen is a fitting exhibition for this farm. Here, Juliet Boyce has been growing flax for fibre since 2023, where it is processed on-site alongside Norfolk Horn fleece as part of the Flax and Fleece Project.
A curation of Yvette’s photographs of Mallon Farm will adorn the walls, creating a beautiful space for local and national connections to be nourished.
The exhibition coincides with the national Heritage Open Days festival, taking place on 13 September 2026. Hundreds of people will flow through the space, sharing stories of traditions and possibilities for the future. More details of this celebratory day will be shared on our events page soon.
We warmly welcome local growers, creatives, families, and communities to join us at this free exhibition, opening Saturday 18 July 2026.
