Tag: hedge-laying
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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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Learning by Doing – Our Thinking Hands
Originally posted on Home Edgeucated: (With thanks to our great friend, artist and T’ai Chi teacher Caroline Ross) Since the summer, the children and I have continued to learn about evolution and prehistory of humankind. We have spent a lot of time discovering how hand tools were made and how they were developed and refined…
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HedgeCanada Revisited: healing the landscape and connecting communities with a new hedgerow story
– Way back in the mists of time I completed a short school project on the Monarch butterfly Danaus plexippus. Young Jim had read an article in a magazine with a picture of a tree dressed from root to branch in thousands of Monarchs. He learned about the incredible migration of this beautiful butterfly up and down Central…
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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…