Tag: Environment

  • Life IN the hedge- toward a monitoring programme for Ontario’s hedgerows (Earth Day 2019)

    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…

  • #30DaysWild Welcome To Ontario

    #30DaysWild Welcome To Ontario

    In wildness is the preservation of the world- Henry David Thoreau, in  ‘Walking’ (1862) Its Sunday June 3rd and back in the UK my colleagues at Surrey Wildlife Trust have already been busy filling social media with their #30dayswild posts to encourage their friends, family and the public to take time each day through June…

  • Hedge Canada 3: The Planting

      “I bequeath myself to the dirt, to grow from the grass I love; If you want me again, look for me under your boot-soles.” – Walt Whitman On an unseasonably warm and sunny Thanksgiving Weekend (6th October 2017) visitors to the Open Day at Mount Wolfe Farm in Caledon, Ontario were able to take…

  • Maasheggenvlechten: Hedge Weaving in the Netherlands

          “This is THE hedge-laying competition!” exclaimed John French as he presented the John French Prize for Best Cutting at the Maasheggenvlechten (literally ‘Meuse Hedge Weaving) last weekend, and indeed it is a hedge-laying competition like no other. Why do thousands of Dutch people flock to fields in the Netherlands to watch a…

  • Maasheggenvlechten: Hedge Weaving in the Netherlands

          “This is THE hedge-laying competition!” exclaimed John French as he presented the John French Prize for Best Cutting at the Maasheggenvlechten (literally ‘Meuse Hedge Weaving) last weekend, and indeed it is a hedge-laying competition like no other. Why do thousands of Dutch people flock to fields in the Netherlands to watch a…