Grow your own furniture

Chris grows his own furniture, only takes about 5 years to get a nice stool to harvest –

“You can grow a stool or a table frame like these. Fruit growers have been training trees to shape since we don’t know when, and furniture has been made of wood for thousands of years, so why not train trees to make furniture? I’ve proved that it can be done. All you need are three saplings, a plywood jig, instructions and a little patience…” [via] – Link.

Related:

• How to grow your own furniture – Link.
• Arborsculptor Richard Reames – Link.
• Tree branch bike… – Link.
• Houses woven out of trees – Link.
• Tree branch bike… – Link.
• Trees… that can draw – Link.

From the pages of MAKE:

• A Treehouse Grows in British Columbia. Three years, 95 feet above the Earth. MAKE 05 – Page 190. Subscribers–read this article now in your digital edition!