We are Benjamin and Cori Rowley. Co-Owners of Yellowood Design Studio LLC. We are a husband and wife team that started our business journey by crafting and restoring vintage axes and tools. A decade ago, when we first got started, we lived in a condo in downtown Columbus, OH. Back then, we shared a workshop with a friend so we didn’t keep the neighbors up at night. Downtown was an odd fit for two people who loved the outdoors, but the city is where we met. It was where we grew up together, where we fell in love and started a family. Fortunately, our small tool restoration business was taking off and our downtown condo was becoming too crowded with the additions to our family, so we packed up and moved to the country!

In February 2020, before the world came crashing down, we were working on a plan to expand our passion for helping affect more significant change in our community. We were seeking ways to give back to the people who needed it the most while building a business that would become intertwined in the communities we work within. 

How We Became Farmers

Our new country home came with a chicken coop, and we thought, "What's a chicken coop without chickens?" Then came the garden. Our garden ended up being larger than our house (over 2000 sq. feet). Our ambitions were more extensive than our experience or knowledge, but we learned, and we grew. As we grew, so did our business. We began crafting and designing all sorts of things; if you had an idea, we would make it a reality. The more we learned and grew, the more we wanted to share our knowledge and love for gardening and tool restoration.