Learn the art and craft of the traditional hedgelayer.
Read MoreCategory: Coppice
Yorkshire Hedge
Laying a large hedgerow to the style of Yorkshire. This style was and is still layed. It is layed for the crop rotation not to place stock in the first few years; arable only.
Read MoreEnd of Season Workshops
Video clips of the workshop hedge that was finished this April. Inspection of the hedge for nests by walking the length to layed How to put the binders on and finish.(Still Photo) The back of the hedge .
Read MoreThe Root lay
Conservation Hedgeing
A short video of an idea put into action by the cattle farmer who was totally sick of having large gaps in his hedgerows He invited me to come and see it in action and see the results and regrowth. I know a lot of the hedgelaying poeple out ther will be very abusive about this […]
Read MoreRe-growth of coppice
A short video ofprevious seasons’ re-growth
Read MoreNorton Workshop
The hedge was a quick and planted by the landowner, the planting was of a single row spaced about a foot apart. The students were very enthusiastic even with the frost. Only hand tools were used. The style of laying the hedge was in the southern style, for the trees were planted a little too far […]
Read MoreMisson Pinfold Hedge
The hedge I have just finished, a large hawthorn last layed more than sixty years ago. The hedge is the boundary of a pinfold on sandy soil, for the village of Misson North Notts. There were some very interesting techniques in the laying of this hedge. First the trees were very dry and brittle and I […]
Read MoreHedgerow Management
Pleaching or Plashing or Ligging! What are these terms. I will start with Plashing. Plashing is a term used for hedgelaying in and around the Notts area of the country. Pleaching is a term for the cut stem of the hedgerow tree that is being layed. Ligging is the term used in the North West of […]
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