What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
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What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
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Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#2How unique is this to Britain? Do other countries have similar hedge density?
Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#3My brain is apparently poisoned, I thought for sure this was about financial hedging, or maybe brexit as a hedge against the rest of Europe, or some other political-economy hot-take garbage.
Anyways, glad it's about plants. Happy Thanksgiving, all!
Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#4How unique is this to Britain? Do other countries have similar hedge density?
In many places they were torn down following mechanization as they’re inconvenient when tractoring about.
I know that some places are starting to incentivise planting them again, because bare fields let wind race and as soon as it rains a bit hard half the field ends on the road blocking it.
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#5To frame this in a different way, how would woodland areas (or what the article is calling hedgerows) work before the Enclosure Movement? Would there have been more diversity? A different approach to agriculture?
I find this article a bit odd in it's approach (although supportive of more hedgerow area) and in inquiry of where the concept of hedgerows came from.
Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#6How unique is this to Britain? Do other countries have similar hedge density?
I don't have a definitive answer, but I've flown to quite a few places around the world and coming back to the UK, the patchwork of fields and hedgerows is really quite distinctive. I can't think of anywhere else that really has them.
Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#7To frame this in a different way, how would woodland areas (or what the article is calling hedgerows) work before the Enclosure Movement? Would there have been more diversity? A different approach to agriculture? I find this article a bit odd in it's approach (although supportive of more hedgerow area) and in inquiry of where the concept of hedgerows came from.
I don't think hedges are really woodland areas? It's only a small line of hedge for many acres of corn or grass or something.
Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#8How unique is this to Britain? Do other countries have similar hedge density?
I grew up in Illinois. The fields there are often surrounded on all sides by a narrow woodland area, sometimes only 10s of feet thick.
I was told the woodland areas are maintained as wind barriers for the otherwise flat plains. Not sure how true that is, but they’re definitely home to normal woodland fauna: dear, squirrels, rabbits, turkey, etc.
Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#9To frame this in a different way, how would woodland areas (or what the article is calling hedgerows) work before the Enclosure Movement? Would there have been more diversity? A different approach to agriculture? I find this article a bit odd in it's approach (although supportive of more hedgerow area) and in inquiry of where the concept of hedgerows came from.
Hedgerows pre-date the enclosure act by centuries, land has always been demarcated. The enclosure act relates to the takeover of common land.
Re: What the world can learn from Britain’s humble hedge
#10My brain is apparently poisoned, I thought for sure this was about financial hedging, or maybe brexit as a hedge against the rest of Europe, or some other political-economy hot-take garbage. Anyways, glad it's about plants. Happy Thanksgiving, all!
>Anyways, glad it's about plants.
confused me, what with there being nothing about foreign agents being used to manipulate the media, but then I realized it was about vegetative matter. :)