Join us on 21st November for a hands-on day learning the basics of cutting and laying a hedge in the Dorset style, using traditional hand tools. 🌳🪚 With a maximum of just 8 participants per course and 2 trainers, you’ll …
From Coppice to Coracles, Hedgelaying to Hurdles, Horse Logging to Milling, Turners to Trugs, Wallers to Wheelwrights and all the wonderful traditional rural skills in between. These are the crafts, skills and people that keep our rural heritage alive. But …
A classic childhood find (thank you @jb_antler_and_leathercraft) added to the Hedgelaying book collection 📚 Always on the lookout for old books that feature hedgelaying preserving any little piece of history with every one. This illustration is from the Ladybird classic …
Winter Work at Bulbarrow Hill: Above and Below the Ridge There’s a particular kind of honesty to winter work on a hilltop. No soft edges, no forgiving conditions just wind, mud, and the quiet persistence of getting the job done. …
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Friday 27th Feb was day out from the current 400m challenge and headed up to the north of the county to finish the week with a Beech and Hornbeam garden hedge. This one’s going to make a huge difference to …
These things are sent to try us… and I’ve got 400 metres of it to prove the point. The digger’s already been through, dragging out lengths of old, rusted fencing that have been swallowed by the hedge over decades. You …
21st February 2026 – South of England Championship A 210-mile round trip, and it was well worth the journey! What a fantastic surprise to come away with 3rd Place in the Champions Class at the South of England Championship. I’m …