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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
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.
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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
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