Hedge Planting Action Day - The Hampshire Hedge WEEKEND SPECIAL 1st Dec

Hello!

This is a weekend special!! - bring along your whole family and plant some hedgerows with us. Hedge planting does not require lots of physical strength and is striaghtfoward to learn. Ellie and Yolande, our Hedgerow Project Manager and Assistant Hedgerow Project Officer, will make sure that everyone knows how to plant and what to do. You are welcome to come for an hour, half a day or the whole day - please just let Ellie or Yolande know ([email protected] or [email protected]) so they can meet you.

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Details for the day:

Time: Meet at 10am, and we’ll be there until 3pm so join for as much as you can!

Location: Forest House Farm

Please note, this address does not come up on google maps. Using W3W is best for this location, or you can follow the google link below.

What3Words for parking/ meeting: ///verdict.kinds.blunders

Google maps pin: https://maps.app.goo.gl/8HU3eoX6BoA2hUmz9

Please bring:

• Packed lunches and water

• Long sleeve and sturdy trousers

• Gardening gloves (if you have any!)

• Spade (if you have one!)

• Water proofs

• Boots (the ground is wet and muddy)

There will be some thorny species so long sleeves, hats and thick trousers are advisable! I have some planting spades, gloves and glasses, but if you have your own and they are easy to bring then please do bring them along.

Everyone is welcome (under 16yrs must be accompanied by an adult).

The event will go ahead drizzle or shine, but we will let you know if we are cancelling due to more extreme weather.

Note: there is toilet access at this site.

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We will be running hedge planting sessions every Thursday, from 21st November until the end of March. In December, January, February and March we will be running one weekend day a month. Our hedge planting days will be across Romsey, Ampfield, Hursley and Copythorne. Please book on to our events so we have a rough idea how many plants to bring!

Thank you so much for your interest in volunteering with us. Your help is hugely appreciated and key to the success of our work.

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The Hampshire Hedge Project

This event is part of the wider Hampshire Hedge project, connecting up the New Forest and the South Downs National Parks with green corridor of hedgerows and wild spaces. Over a 3-year period (starting Autumn 2023) CPRE Hampshire will restore a network of 12 – 14 miles of hedgerows working with local communities, schools, landowners and farmers to manage existing hedgerows and plant new ones, connecting up copses and meadows along the way.

Hedgerows are an incredibly important landscape feature, forming the quintessential English countryside view, as well as important for much of our native wildlife, flood management and for the climate through carbon storage. We have lost half of our hedgerows since 1945 (lined up the loss of hedgerows amounts to a distance greater than the distance to the moon) and we are losing the skills to manage them well. For further information on getting involved in the project please contact our Assistant Hedgerow Project Officer, Yolande, at [email protected].

Host or Publisher CPRE Hampshire, the Countryside Charity