Natural BuildingDay course

Willow Weaving & Basketry

Strackxhoeve Wilds · Veerle-Laakdal, Belgium

A single immersive day learning to weave a basket from willow coppiced on the farm.

Weave a round basket start to finishLearn to sort and prepare willowCut and bundle willow for next year

What you'll learn

Weave a sturdy round basket
Prepare and grade willow rods
Understand coppice and harvest cycles

What the land gains

The willow beds cut and coppiced for the year
Living willow fencing woven along a field edge

The host site

Strackxhoeve Wilds

A community farm and glamping meadow rewilding its edges

A community-run farm where bell tents sit in a flowering meadow and the field edges are given back to nature. Volunteers, growers, and guests move through the season together, and there is always a planting or a build on the go.

Your teacher

Nadia Haddad

Willow weaver & basketmaker

4.8 · 29 reviews · 12 yrs teaching