Tag: Landscape
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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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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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Envisioning a New Canadian Hedgerow
Yesterday I continued with the work of planting up the hedgerow at Mount Wolfe Farm that we had begun at the Fall Farm Fest when we launched the Hedgerow Rite (blog on that coming soon!) Its great to spend some time with these plants, most of which are new to me at least at the…
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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 