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Willow Farming
ORGANICALLY GROWN. COPPICING, SORTING BY HAND
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 that will nourish your landscape and provide an opportunity for creative, colorful, and useful landscape elements that support native pollinators.
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Willow Products
LIVE WILLOW RODS AND DRY WEAVING STICKS
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 basket weaving, 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.
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Services by commission
LIVING AND WOVEN WILLOW STRUCTURES
Living Willow Farm creates living willow landscape features by commission for private and commercial use.
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.
Why Willow?
Willow is a valuable plant in the natural ecosystem as it provides a wonderful bio-diverse habitat for insects, bees, and birds. Typically, willow is found as a succession species in wetlands, disturbed environments, and reclaimed areas to stabilize soils and provide habitat for pollinators, wildlife, songbirds, and caterpillars.
Willow contains two powerful growth hormones which make it ideal for propagation from cuttings along with high concentrations of salic acid or salicin which repels deer from grazing the leaves.
Living willow farm encourages you to learn about willow through weaving and growing different varieties. Making beautiful landscape art, garden structures and useful baskets for your home out of willow nourishes the land from which it is grown.
Living Willow Farm
Welcome to our heritage farm located in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains of Southeast Ohio. It is with great reverence and responsibility that we grow willow, which is a perennial woody plant to use in our art, design, and handicraft.
Additionally, we offer our willow harvest each year to basket makers, artists, sculptors, DIY, homesteaders, puppeteers, lantern parades, gardeners, florists, interior designers, architects, landscape architects, parks, schools, woodworkers, and weavers.
Demonstrating with managed willow groves the living lifecycle of farming, harvesting, and making a way to bring nature and humans into balance with each other, where one resides.
Dried Willow Rods
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 Rods
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 basket weaving, 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.
Our Offerings
LIVING WILLOW STRUCTURES
The farm can design, collaborate and install living willow landscape sculptures, living fences, natural play structures, erosion control, canopies, mazes and other architectural living garden forms. Living structures are unique in that they continue to grow and change with the natural seasons of the year. We create commissions for private homes, parks, arboretums, estates, institutions and commercial locations. In addition, the farm provides living willow rods for customers to create their own installations.
WILLOW GARDEN STRUCTURES
Living Willow Farm can create custom willow woven structures for exterior landscapes and gardens based on clients’ requirements. Woven wattle borders, sculptures, woven architectural walls, play structures, arbors, garden beds, treillages, cloches, panels, screens, edging, nests, huts, mazes are samples of custom work that are based on the clients’ requirements and aesthetics. In addition, the farm provide willow for customers to create their own structures.
NATURAL INTERIOR DESIGN
Living Willow Farm uses the willow we grow and harvest on our farm to create unique natural interior design elements. The use of willow in woven forms provides warmth, texture and a unique character to large scale decorative and functional interior design elements. Woven containers, lighting, displays, wall art, ceilings, lanterns, furniture, puppetry, stage design are samples of custom work that are created for private homes, restaurants, entertainment venues, hotels, and other public venues.
WILLOW WOVEN BASKETS
Willow farmer and artist Howard Peller weaves willow into lovely baskets and artistic forms using the natural color palette of willow grown and harvested on his Appalachian heritage farm. Howard aka “willow wizard” has developed a commitment to create his art and craft based on the seasonal cycle of farming willow. Howard works with various international weaving techniques along with being an experienced maker who has honed his design and craft skills for the last 50 years in many different materials and forms.