Tag: Environment

  • 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…

  • 3 Go to Canada: Hedges, Novel Ecosystems and Damn Fine Donuts

    3 Go to Canada: Hedges, Novel Ecosystems and Damn Fine Donuts

        Where I find myself in Ontario Canada introducing the technique of hedge-laying and discovering social-ecological complexity, Novel Ecosystems theory and Community Supported Agriculture along the way     I’m writing this blog as US Citizens go to the polls and a baked potato crisps in the oven, getting ready for a date with…

  • A journey through The Web of Life:

    This post is about why my blog is so named and how a connection, in this case with ideas in a book can be life changing. The first book that opened my eyes to science was Fritjof Capra’s book Web of Life: A New Synthesis of Mind and Matter (1996). If I’m honest, sitting here…