Tag: Landscape

  • 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…

  • Very happy Venus is following me to my new lodgings in the Surrey Hills

    Very happy Venus is following me to my new lodgings in the Surrey Hills

    As I arrived with a second car load of stuff at my new lodgings near Dorking in Surrey, I looked up and caught site of a wonderful thumbnail moon and there, hanging like a full stop on a moonbeam sentence was Venus.  Its extraordinary how such a sight can move your scientific reason and poetic soul…

  • 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…

  • Encounters In The Wild: Hare by Jim Crumley. A review of sorts

    “….what makes you think the Hare is done with night just because she kicked a badger in the ribs?” Ever since the days when I thought I might be a druid, the Hare, along with the bear and the wolf, has been an animal of  power and magic in my imagination. This triptych is with…