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Hedgerow Project

Greg

17 Mar 2023

New hedgerow projects for 2024 - 2025. As the May blossom appears in our hedgerows (here in the South of the county), we are delighted to tell you that CPRE Shropshire has been successful in bidding for a fourth year of funding for its Hedgerow Heroes project which will run until April 2025.

This means:

  • 5km+ new hedgerow creation in the county

  • More 2-day hedgelaying workshops for beginners

  • A return of the popular 2-day coppice management workshops

  • Arts/creativity workshops around the theme of hedgerows

  • New for 2024 - two 1-day biochar workshops

  • A meadows & hedgerow day, in collaboration with Buglife the invertebrate charity

  • A field names walk and talk in the Clun Forest

  • Plus other walks/talks including a Zoom talk from Richard Negus, hedgelayer and author of Words from the Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside published this spring

 

We will be putting out a call for hedge sites in June so if you know of anyone seeking to plant a new native hedgerow, please put them in touch. There are some criteria involved.

 

We plant on a mix of community owned and farmed land or on smallholdings (not private gardens/drives).

 

All events and training opportunities will be announced in this bulletin and on our website here: www.cpreshropshire.org.uk/hedgerow-project

 

If you would like to be on the shortlist of places for hedgelaying, coppice management or biochar, please email admin@cpreshropshire.org.uk

 

There may be a modest fee for some workshops. 

 

The website will be updated when new information is available.

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