Turf sofa comes to Castle Drogo

In recent months the Trust has produced a number of 'turf sofas', to be displayed at various properties over the summer period. Each of these sofas contains over 14 bales of hay and 20 metres of turf, all sewn together using 500 'stitches'.

The idea came from a remark made by one of the National Trust's founders, Octavia Hill, who, famously, said that she wanted the nation to treat the outdoors as their very own ‘outdoor living rooms’.

We were, therefore, delighted to take delivery of one of these sofas, last week, that had previously been on display at Wembury Point. After its journey this sofa was a bit dry and in need of some TLC but, already, there are signs of improvement and fresh grass is sprouting.

We do hope that you can find time, over the coming weeks, to come and try our sofa out for size - it certainly beats sitting in front of the telly!