The latest session in our heritage skills training and education project saw participants learn how to cut and lay a hedge with Jeremy Weiss, a traditional rural services and training specialist.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this training day, which took place at Duloe Stone Circle!
The workshop was part of a wide-ranging heritage skills training and education project, which has been made possible by a grant of £10,000 from Cornwall Community Foundation through the Tanner Phoenix Trust.
Jeremy is an experienced instructor having taught courses for the National Trust, Dartmoor Hill Farm Project, Devon Rural Skills Trust and for his own business, ‘Proper Edges’. He has a first-class honours degree in Environmental Science and a very keen interest in ecology, conservation and traditional countryside management.
During this workshop, attendees learnt about the proper care of hand tools, tool sharpening, safety considerations, cutting and laying the hedge, and securing the hedge using natural crooks.
They also discussed alternatives to hedge laying, restoring badly neglected hedges, the cultural, historical and environmental importance of hedges, the hedge as a resource, and the use of brash to make biochar.
About the funder
Cornwall Community Foundation helps people across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly by awarding small grants to grassroots organisations that are working to overcome the challenges of disadvantage, exclusion and poverty in their communities.
Find out more at www.cornwallcommunityfoundation.com
