Saturday 7 January 2012: Hedge laying day course. 9.30am - 4pm
Location: Yarcombe/Stockland area. Learn the traditional skill of hedge laying with experienced instructors from the Blackdown Hills Hedge Laying Association. Hedge laying creates materials for crafts and habitats for wildlife as well as providing barriers and shelter for stock. Cost: £30. Booking required via the BHHA website at http://bhha.info/ Location: Yarcombe/Stockland area.
For more information: Contact George Pidgeon on 01404 881634 / 07970 644631 or see http://bhha.info/ Blackdown Hills Hedge Association
Hedge laying improvers course A course for those who have previously attended the Blackdown Hills Hedge Association's day course (above), and would now like to improve their skills. 9.30am - 4pm Cost: £30. Booking required via the BHHA website at http://bhha.info/

Saturday 4 Febuary 2012: Hedge laying day course. 9.30am - 4pm
Location: Yarcombe/Stockland area. Learn the traditional skill of hedge laying with experienced instructors from the Blackdown Hills Hedge Laying Association. Hedge laying creates materials for crafts and habitats for wildlife as well as providing barriers and shelter for stock. Cost: £30. Booking required via the BHHA website at http://bhha.info/ Location: Yarcombe/Stockland area.
For more information: Contact George Pidgeon on 01404 881634 / 07970 644631 or see http://bhha.info/ Blackdown Hills Hedge Association
Hedge laying improvers course A course for those who have previously attended the Blackdown Hills Hedge Association's day course (above), and would now like to improve their skills. 9.30am - 4pm Cost: £30. Booking required via the BHHA website at http://bhha.info/

Sunday 12 February 2012 Hedgerow baskets course
Location: Buckland St Mary village hall. An introduction to basket making. Create a unique and colourful round willow basket incorporating hedgerow materials. Learn about the Somerset tradition of harvesting willow and find out how it is prepared and used in crafts
Cost: £50. Booking required (at least two weeks in advance) Location: Buckland St Mary village hall, TA20 3SP.
For more information: Contact Jenny Archard on 01404 549488 / craftcourses@bhha.info or see http:/bhha.info Toilets on site. Level access. No obstacles. Blackdown Hills Hedge Association

 

Hedge Group Meetings

Open to all - just let the Secretary know you are coming. Joy Williams, SHG Secretary, on Tel: 01823 355663 or Email: jewilliams@somerset.gov.uk

Wednesday 28 March 2012 at 10.00 am in Exmoor National Park Offices, Dulverton - this will possibly be a joint meeting with the Devon Hedge Group and include a presentation.

Somerset Hedge Group Photographic Competition 2012 Subject - Hedgerow flowers and fruits through the seasons.
Open to amateurs and for digital images only. Open and Junior categories. Cash prizes. Now is the time to start taking those shots! Capture the flora of hedgerows in Somerset - in beech banks on Exmoor and the Blackdowns, new hedges planted under Environmental Stewardship and ancient parish boundaries - in autumn colours, winter frost, spring green and summer flowering.

National Hedge Laying Championships - See the Blackdown Hills Hedge Association site and http://www.hedgelaying.org.uk/champ09.htm for details of this year's competition.
Saturday 22nd October 2011 - National Hedgelaying Championship 2011 Will be held at Arlingham in Gloucestershire. See full details on-line now. Further details from the secretary: nhls.enquiries@gmail.com

Blackdown Hills Hedge Event - 10 March 2012, "Skills of the Hills"
At Lower Shelvin Farm, Luppit, Devon, EX14 4UF. By kind permission of Mr Arthur Sage
Details on the Blackdown Hills Hedge Association site.

Hedgerow crafts
Hedgerow house, green woodworking and traditional hurdles amongst many others. Details on the Blackdown Hills Hedge Association site. Contact Mrs Margaret Edwards, Burnt House Farm, Ham, Combe St Nicholas, Chard TA20 3HX Tel: 01460 234222

Somerset Rural Training :Tel. 01823 601438

Hedge laying course with George Pidgeon Tel. 01404 881634 and Henry Trott Tel. 01404 891219. Overday Farm (Blackdown Hills Hedge Association)
Details of new courses, as available.

Hedge Laying Courses at Carymoor Environmental Centre, Castle Cary
For more details or to book a place on future courses please call 01963 350143 or email enquiries@carymoor.org.uk

Free Hedgelaying courses: Liz Eley, Eley Angoras, Frome, Somerset
Contact Liz Eley, 01373 472312. E-mail: liz.eley@uwclub.net