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Willow Weaving & Basketry
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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

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

Nadia Haddad

Willow weaver & basketmaker

4.8 · 29 reviews · 12 yrs teaching