Today we had the pleasure of hosting a visit from the film crew from Antiques Road Show who were filming nearby for the competition between Raj Bisram and one of his colleagues, Maggie Adrin-Pocock. Raj looked at the past of Trug making, the current position and the future of our industry whilst having a go…
One of our customers in Italy sent us this photograph of her verbena and lavender harvest, about which she said “Today we filled almost all our trugs with thrashed dried lavender flowers. Ready to distill into oil and hydrosol. We got them inside just as the heavens opened with the first rain for over a…
Janet from Camden in New South Wales contacted us last week to say that her Trug has become famous in Australia! Costa Georgiadis, presenter with ABC’s “Gardening Australia” had visited the Camden Community Garden and was very taken with her Royal Sussex Trug! Costa is a very popular TV presenter and quite a character as…
Challenging year is 2018!! First we have all the wet weather meaning that our woodsman was unable to extract the sweet chestnut from the woodlands so it was a good job we stock piled already hewn and shaved chestnut for the handles and rims Then we find there is a shortage of cricket bat willow!…
