Growing a hedge you will never see finished

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.