A Natural History of the Hedgerow: and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls by John Wright Groundswell Speaker 2024 It is littered with failure

It is littered with failure

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A Natural History of the Hedgerow: and ditches, dykes and dry stone walls by John Wright Groundswell Speaker 2024 It is littered with failureIt is difficult to think of a more quintessential symbol of the British countryside than the British Hedgerow, bursting with blackberries, hazelnuts and sloes, and home to oak and ash, field mice and butterflies. But as much as we might dream about foraging for mushrooms or collecting wayside nettles for soup, most of us are unaware of quite how profoundly hedgerows have shaped the history of our landscape and our fellow species. One of Britain's best