WELCOME TO
LIVING WILLOW FARM
Welcome to the willow farm, our artisan effort to find balance in growing, harvesting and working with nature to practice the coppice craft of willow weaving.
Living Willow Farm creates heirloom-quality willow baskets, willow fences, woven structures, natural home furnishings and natural interior design, living willow structures and living sculpture installations, as well as offering willow branches, sticks, and rods for sale.
Our organically grown willow branches, sticks, and rods are ideal for creating willow baskets, willow fences, garden structures, wattle fence, arbors, raised beds, pergolas, lighting, borders, screens, and any woven creation you put your mind to.
Why Willow
Willow provides a home to a very diverse and beneficial community of insects, birds, bees, and other living creatures. Farmer and artist Howard Peller has planted living willow structures-sculptures throughout the farm which provide an early supply of nourishment for beehives and native insects, protect gardens with deer-resistant fencing, buffer gardens with willow windrows, and imbue wonder with magical tunnels, domes, and sacred spaces.
At Living Willow Farm, we encourage you to consider learning to weave with willow to create useful and beautiful objects; and create living willow projects which will nourish your landscape and provide an opportunity for creative, colorful, and useful landscape elements that support native pollinators.
Our Offerings & Services
DRIED WILLOW BRANCHES
Dried willow branches provide the perfect medium for weaving willow baskets, furniture, and wreaths. Simply soak dried willow in water to make the willow pliable again and ready for weaving.
LIVING WILLOW CUTTINGS
Living Willow Farm offers willow cuttings in a range of sizes to suit a variety of projects. Small willow cuttings are best suited to growing rods for basketweaving, garden borders, and small sculptures. Large willow cuttings are ideal for creating your own living willow landscape features, such as living willow fence, willow domes and structures, living privacy screens, and living willow mazes.
LIVING WILLOW FENCES, TUNNELS, & NATURAL PLAYGROUNDS
Living Willow Farm creates living willow landscape features by commission for both private and commercial use.
GARDEN BORDERS, WATTLE FENCE, & WILLOW PRIVACY SCREENS
Farmer and artist Howard Peller has used his weaving techniques to create willow garden gates, plant supports, and even a wattle fence maze. Work is to order and custom to your space and needs.
NATURAL INTERIOR DESIGN
Living Willow Farm combines natural materials such as wood, metal, and stone with willow branches and weavings to create unique all-natural interior design elements. Willow branches woven into interior spaces create warmth and add texture to living, recreation, and work spaces.
WILLOW BASKETS, BAGS, & SMALL SCULPTURES
Farmer and artist Howard Peller’s basket work uses the natural palette of willow’s colors, textures, and smells to evoke nature’s beauty and divine qualities. Howard intentionally forges a relationship between growing materials and woven pieces produced to satisfy both aesthetic and purposeful needs.