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Hedgerows Ireland
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Hedgerows Ireland is an island-wide organisation promoting the conservation and appropriate management of hedgerows. Est. 2004.

Website: www.hedgerows.ie
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Join our team! Hedgerows Ireland CLG is seeking a part-time Executive Officer. They will support our operations and help us deliver strategies towards our vision of a network of native hedgerows managed for nature. Closing Date: 5 pm, Friday 9th May. Read more and apply: www.hedgerows.ie/careers
April 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Mary & Declan, who took part in our 2024 Championships as beginner hedge layers, were further building up their skills at last weekend's training day in Ranelagh! 👏

Spaces available:
🔹️ Boherbue, Co. Cork on 25th January
🔹️ Clogheen, Co. Tipperary on 1st February

Book now on www.hedgerows.ie/events
A person in a cream puffy jacket using a billhook to lay a stem in a hedgerow along a metal fence.
January 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Happy Holidays from Hedgerows Ireland!🎄

Our 2024 training days may be over, but luckily, we have more courses scheduled in January & February. If your New Year's Resolution is to learn a new skill, make sure to explore hedge laying: hedgerows.ie/events/
Hedge Laying Training (background image of two people staking a laid hedge). Beginner: - Sat 25th January, Boherbue, Co. Cork - Sat 1st February, Clogheen, Co. Tipperary - Sat 15th February, Ranelagh, Co. Dublin Intermediate/Advanced: - Sat 25th & Sun 26th Jan, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
December 20, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Christmas presents sorted! We're delighted to see a whole chapter on hedgerows & field boundaries in the new Farming for Nature handbook. It covers planting, managing, and rejuvenating hedgerows—plus creating 'bee scrapes' on sunny earth banks at their base for solitary bees 🐝
Farming For Nature Handbook. A practical guide to protecting and restoring nature on your farm. E.E. Hart, B. Barry and B. Dunford. Black and white illustrations of livestock, birds, soil, and farmland.
December 17, 2024 at 4:58 PM
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Another busy weekend of training with over 15 people taking part!

At the Naas hedgerow, we spotted 15 new shoots coming off just one stem that was laid last year! This new growth makes a much more dense and well-protected habitat for wildlife 🐦🦔

➡️ www.hedgerows.ie/events
People laying a hedge with a sign in front that reads: Hedgerow Undergoing Rejuvenation Find out more: www.hedgerows.ie/management The Naas Biodiversity Group is rejuvenating this hedgerow through hedge laying. Hedgerows are largely human-made features. Eventually, trees reach the end of their natural lifespan and the base becomes gappy. Hedge laying is a traditional management technique that partly cuts the stem close to ground level so it bends without breaking. Regrowth from the cuts thickens the base and rejuvenates the hedgerow; creating a dense, healthy habitat ideal for nesting wildlife. Mature trees are left at intervals for bird perching posts. Laying can extend the life span of most hedgerow trees almost indefinitely. 1. Stems are cut and laid over 2. New shoots regrow from the base 3. A more dense, healthy habitat in the long term Naas Biodiversity Group & Kildare County Council logos. A group for people preparing a hedge for laying by cutting off side branches. A person using a billhook to lay a stem in a hedgerow. Others are working in the background. 4 people putting binders around stakes on a laid hedge. A tall tree has been left in the middle of the laid hedge. It's a sunny day and there's a tree line in the background.
December 3, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Steve Bass enjoyed a sunny Sunday at CELT's open day last weekend! He even recruited a little helper to demonstrate how to bind a laid hedge 🐈‍⬛

CELT is also a member of the Irish Environmental Network and provides training in woodland skills and traditional crafts.

📸 by Eleni Kalantzi
Steve demonstrating how binders work on a wooden plank with nails, as a black cat walks along it. There is a white van and fields with trees in the background. Steve explaining hedge laying while standing in front of a laid hedge. Steve demonstrating hedge laying with a field and trees in the background. A wooden sign reading "Celt - Promoting the natural environment and sustainable living" with people chatting in the background.
November 28, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Our hedge laying training days are in full swing! There are still spots for the intermediate/advanced course next weekend. We also have beginner days in Dublin & Wexford in January & February! Start the New Year off strong by learning a new skill 💪

Book here: hedgerows.ie/events/
A group of people standing beside a gappy old hedge that has been laid in Co. Donegal. There are mature trees in the background and the remnants of a stone wall at the hedge. A group of people watching a person bind a laid hedge in Co. Offaly. There is a woodland in the background and more stakes and binders lying on the ground. A laid hedge with stakes and binders. Credit to the National Built Heritage Service for the photo! 6 people smiling for a photo while holding hedge laying tools such as slash hooks, a fork, billhook, and chainsaw. There is a laid hedge behind them and it's a cloudy day in Co. Longford.
November 20, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Visit CELT's free open day near Loughrea, Co. Galway this Sunday, 24th Nov. Steve Bass will speak about hedgerows and the day will also feature traditional crafts, foraging, woodlands, wetlands, and spoken word in tribute to CELT's late co-founder, Bob Wilson.

Register: celtnet.org/events/celt-...
www.celtnet.org/events. CELT Open Day. Sun 24 Nov. Hedge Walk with Steve Bass. Plus traditional crafts, foraging, ponds and wetlands talk, forest bathing, and spoken word in tribute to CELT’s co-founder Bob Wilson. Background image of Rose hips.
November 19, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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Good news 🎉Our Hands on Hedges DVD has now been converted to a digital format and is available to view on YouTube. The series of five short videos covers how to understand, plant, and manage hedgerows.

➡️ youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Let us know what you think!
Photo of pink and orange Spindle berries. White text reading "Hands on Hedges - Watch on YouTube".
November 15, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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We recommend planting hedgerows with trees of Irish Provenance—from seeds collected and grown in Ireland.

⏰ Phenology (when they bud-burst, flower and seed) is better adapted to our environment and wildlife.
🦠 Lower disease risk (e.g. Fireblight).

➡️ hedgerows.ie/planting/
Are you planting a hedgerow this winter? Buy Irish Provenance Certified trees! - Bud-burst, flowers & seeds are adapted to local wildlife. - Imports increase disease risk (e.g. Fireblight). www.hedgerows.ie/planting
November 11, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Hello from Hedgerows Ireland! We're all about the conservation and nature-friendly management of our native hedgerows. Such as this beautiful Hawthorn hedgerow at a tillage farm in Co. Kildare, belonging to the Farming for Nature Ambassador, Tom Tierney.
A Hawthorn hedgerow in bloom along a farm lane with a tillage field on the left.
November 8, 2024 at 12:44 PM