Tag: HEDGEROWS

  • Stories Are All Around Us Part 1: Reflections after Narrative Basecamp Session 1

    Stories Are All Around Us Part 1: Reflections after Narrative Basecamp Session 1

    Many years ago in my early 20s when I first started walking in the landscapes UK just for the sheer pleasure of it, I might find a track along the edge of a field, or between two fields, bordered on both or either side by a hedgerow. I would walk along side it, comprehending the…

  • The hedger and John Clare

    The hedger and John Clare

    Each hedge is loaded thick wi greenAnd where the hedger late hath beenTender shoots begin to growFrom the mossy stumps belowWhile sheep and cow that teaze the grainwill nip them to the root againThey lay their bill and mittens byeAnd on to other labours hie John Clare, in ‘May’ from ‘The Shepherds Calendar’ (1827) We can’t let…

  • Hedgerows at the first ever International Association for Landscape Ecology-North America Conference

    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…

  • Hedgelaying North American Style with Dr Johann Schoepf (1783)

    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,…

  • Learning by Doing – Our Thinking Hands

    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…