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# Growing a hedge you will never see finished
- URL: https://quiet.labs.enova.studio/podcast/ep-04-growing-a-hedge-you-will-never-see-finis/
- Published: 2026-03-27T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-10T20:11:39.000Z
- Description: with Nadia Ferrant · 52m
- Author: Enova Studio
- Tags: #podcast

Nadia Ferrant lays hedges in the Somerset style and is planting for a landscape she will not see. The oldest hedge she has worked on was laid in the 1780s.

> I am halfway through someone else's job and someone else will be halfway through mine.  
> Nadia Ferrant

## In this episode

1. 02:00 What laying a hedge actually involves, for the uninitiated.
2. 14:30 The 1780s hedge, and how you can tell.
3. 27:10 Machine flailing, and the twenty-year cost of a cheap winter.
4. 38:45 On planting for 2090.
5. 47:00 Forty more years.

## Mentioned

- *Hedges* by E. Pollard, M. D. Hooper and N. W. Moore
- The National Hedgelaying Society
- A billhook, rehandled three times

Recorded in a field near Wedmore, in February, badly.