Tag: Landscape
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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…
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#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…
James T Jones 