A Horrible Truth That Shouldn’t Be….

Check out our friends @ptes-org.bsky.social who have an event running on the 6 May at 6pm with @favcolourgreen.bsky.social 🌳 Hedgerow myth busting – (So you think you know hedgerows?) Get your tickets below! shop.ptes.org/product/tick...

What a glorious day to be in Wales! Im here chatting policy, but couldnt help getting up a bit early to check out the sights

Thank you @phoebeweston.bsky.social for such a wonderful and optimistic article on Hedgerows! It's great to celebrate the wonders we have, appreciate the legacy, and use that to inform our combined future www.theguardian.com/environment/...

On a fasconating site visit today 10 points per photo to tell me what you see

Blossom is so often overlooked when we choose a new apple tree, but as this wonderful montage from @thepackingshedtamar on IG shows, some varieties have especially beautiful flowers. Scent also varies greatly from variety to variety.

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Come on rain! Its dry as a bone on this here bank. And this mini restoration needs water!

Self-professed ‘hedgerow geek’ Megan Gimber is our John Spedan Lewis Emerging Leader Award 2025 winner! She has spent almost a decade advocating for the protection, management, and growth of the UK’s depleted hedgerows. @ptes-org.bsky.social @favcolourgreen.bsky.social www.linnean.org/the-...

What a surprise, a delight, and an honour!

Its always a joy when the hedgebank stitchwort flowers

One of our new(ish) hedge oak pollards coming back to leaf & looking great We wanted the oak that popped up, but didnt have the space for a full canopied whopper This keeps it compact, gives us woodfuel on rotation and makes a great tree

Fernhill farm open day was incredible. I got to show people some amazing hedges in a traditional laying cycle. I got to meet the wonderful @thread.and.yarn who has a hedgerow shawl knitting pattern (love!) and even learn about bark-ometers from Andy Rummings

I'm going to be at the Fernhill farm open day in the mendips today Ive been to the farm &drooled over their hedges before, do cant wait to be leading 2 sessions tomorrow; one practiacl management for farmers, one general knowledge for the public Lots going on all day!

Happy equinox to those that celebrate!

Can't keep a good beech down! This one used to be a layed hedge...

@elenapearce.bsky.social A fantastic talk! I use the open-mosaic wildwood to explain how cultural habitats which mimic this structure are so biologically diverse It can inform how we manage farmed habitats to integrate more diversity. Not just the structure but the temporal & spatial dynamism

I passed a worm this morning, worming its way down a concrete underpass. Itd progressed 3m since I passed it earlier Instincts were failing it. There was nothing for it down there. To the confusion & disgust of passers by, i took it to a scrap of grass, to face other town dangers

Today is the 40th South of England hedgelaying competition! More excitingly, its my husband (TomTheHedgelayer)s first time competing Its misty. The skylarks are singing. Its already more exciting than it has any business being

@favcolourgreen.bsky.social Our latest bit of hedgelaying (with last year's on the right) - looking forward to nature bursting forth! 🪻

Today I'm at a hedgelaying competition (as a spectator!) in Cambridge on @linesmartin.bsky.social farm They're laying a young maiden hedge. This will thicken it right out from the base, make it a lot more robust, better for wildlife etc Also a great time to get those damn spirals removed

Next month, Thursday 6 February: Rootstock, a future farming conference for the South West. Looking forward to speakers including Minette Batters, Hodmedods' Josiah Meldrum, @howemill.bsky.social, @jamesgyke.bsky.social, @no1farmerjake.bsky.social rootstock.ag #Agroecology #Devon #Cornwall

For hedges, capital grants cover: Planting Laying Coppicing Fencing Gapping up All of which are essential, all of which are currently on hold with the capital grants freeze. It's my biggest hope for 2025 that these are re-instated ASAP to reduce the wider damaging impacts: A🧵

An absolute treat today, hedge Workshop in a medevil "barn" then a walk around some ancient hedges cut from the wild woods themselves in 11th Century. The history, heritage and value in here is astonishing

Wednesday farm cluster group near Newton Abbott Lovely thick elm/holly/hazel/hawthorn/spindle/blackthorn/ash hedges Old pleachers & stone faced banks Old oak tree-line hedges replanted & restored Whole new hedge banks & hot pasties all round for lunch!

My toddler Pippin is SO excited about xmas He misheard father christmas for 'Farmer Christmas' & i'm not going to be the one to correct him Ive just bought our xmas turkey from Lydiard Turkeys so Chris - you are officially our Farmer Christmas this year! www.lydiardturkeys.co.uk/our-turkeys

Amazing! Its been 70 odd years since regular hedge rejuvenation was commonplace so it doesnt hurt to remind folk of the needs Glad the posters are coming in useful!

Preparing for a busy week in Devon doing some hedgerow management training with farm cluster groups A wonderful amount of appetite and enthusiasm for changing up the way we aaproach them

Wish me luck- i'm heading to the big smoke to talk Hedgerow policy all day today I'm wearing my spiky earrings just in case..