An hours drive, or there abouts, we arrived at the Longaberger Homestead. This is the site of the original family farm, now converted to a place for fans of Longaberger baskets to visit and experience things. Longaberger Basket hand makes baskets here in Ohio. In 1973 Dave Longaberger built the company. His grandfather originally made baskets for local farmers and Dave took the company larger. You can buy their products on-line, in their stores or even become a consultant for them and host basket parties. The baskets are beautiful and well made. The range from very small to really big. And they are all hand made.
There is a collectors club for Longaberger baskets and they were having different displays for them. One thing everyone can do when at the Homestead is build your own basket. They have experts there to help you.
On-site they have the world's largest apple basket, standing some 20 feet tall. We ate at their restaurant for dinner. It was interesting to see these very expensive baskets to be used as trash cans in the restaurant bathrooms. I guess when you make them you can use a lot of them.
We enjoyed our visit to the facility but did not purchase anything. I thought about it but couldn't figure out where to put it in the rig.
Enjoy all the pictures.
1 comment:
Where is the Longaberger office building? It's the biggest basket I've ever seen.
Don Peltz
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