Exploration 45 | Journey in Place | Hedgerows
Guest exploration by Sue Kusch.
Tiny Essay
Long before barbed wire and chain-link fences, hedgerows defined agricultural fields over 5,000 years ago. One of the most iconic landscape features of the United Kingdom, ancient hedgerows were the remnants of wild woodlands, incorporating stones, dead wood, and a tangled diversity of thorny trees, shrubs, and forbs. Like modern fencing, hedg…
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