Tag: nature
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Welcome to The Hedge School for a Complex World
As of November 2025 I have moved my writing to substack as The Hedge School in A Complex World Please come and join me there I’m Jim Jones. I am Wayfinding in a time of Metacrisis at the meeting point of so many edges. The Hedge School for a Complex World is….. Welcome to the hedge—where thought grows…
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Following the Chestnut Tree: Exploring the connection between Global Generation and Wilderness Wood
“To be without trees would, in the most literal way, to be without our roots.” — Richard Mabey, Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees (2007) “He that plants trees, loves others besides himself.” — Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732) “I started off down the ride from Deer Path to the moat, with the rain rat-a-tat-tatting on…
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Black Mountains and Beyond 2: Hedgelaying, Ancestry, Narratives and thoughts about Back-to-the-Land movements.
At the end of a splendid week on the road with my Canadian friend Andrew Millward visiting the Black Mountains College (see previous post) we connected with my old buddy Nigel Adams in Oxford. Nigel took Andrew and I for a days hedge-laying in Henley. It was supposed to be two days, but at Nigel’s…
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The Black Mountains and Beyond: A Road Trip Brain Dump
Talgarth, South Wales. This is my first blog in a while and is really just a collection of thoughts and ideas that have been surfacing, or have surfaced during this road trip, arranged in no particular order! Its going to be a bit fragmented while I get down lots of ideas to follow up later.…
James T Jones 