Category: Landscape
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Hedgerows at the first ever International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America Conference
This week the International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America (IALE_NA) is holding its first ever Annual Conference. I was originally a member of the UK branch of IALE and joined the North American chapter when it was formed last year from what was IALE-US. The conference was to be held in Toronto, and I was…
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Hedgelaying North American Style with Dr Johann Schoepf (1783)
” Hedgelayers do it in style!” may sound like an amusing bumper-sticker but it refers to one of the most fascinating features of this rural skill: that local differences exist in hedgerow management, called by the National Hedgelaying Society Regional Styles. There are more than 30 styles recorded in the UK, with more in Europe,…
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Life IN the hedge- toward a monitoring programme for Ontario’s hedgerows (Earth Day 2019)
Yesterday- Earth Day 2019- felt like the warmest day yet this Spring here in Ontario- a balmy 19 degrees, a perfect day to get started on the monitoring programme for our Mount Wolfe Farm hedgerows. We planted two hedgerows here at the farm in 2017 and 2018. The 2017 hedge was started in the…
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Kinship (a Poem)
Kinship Lima Cat sits at the edge of the kitchen window, Tail a-swishing, Muscles twitching. Hunger brings the be-wintered Chickadees To the feeder, Forays from the surrounding firs and pines. A black-capped bird alights on window ledge Strewn with sunflower seeds. Back arched, Lima tenses; Her eyes fixed and focused, Her paw…
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TRCAmazing! Another New Hedge Planting at Mount Wolfe Farm!
Its Autumn! Its Fall! Its Hedge-Time! I love this time of year as the leaves lose their chlorophyll pigment and the anthocyanins and carotenoids reveal a harvest of ochre, carnelian, caramel, crimson, and ruby. Perhaps its my conservation background that makes me feel its a time to tinker, or maybe its just a revealed…
James T Jones 