Hedgerows: Living Fences to the Moon and Back

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Let's plant wild habitat to the moon and back! Wild Farm Alliance has an ambitious goal to inspire 25% of U.S. farms to plant a Farmland Wildway, having an average of 1 mile of a hedgerow or windbreak, leading to 500,000 miles of living field borders. That's enough habitat to reach the moon and back. Follow our step by step instructions for installing hedgerows on your farm.

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@pam9470 Жыл бұрын

In the UK the small birds use hedgerows as safety corridors, they will rarely fly across large open fields which leaves them open to becoming lunch for raptor type birds! Well done Wild Farm Alliance for an encouraging and inspiring project.

@kellydavidson3379 Жыл бұрын

Farmers (at least the non-agribusiness variety) will be crucial leaders in the fight to protect biodiversity. The farmers I have met have such a wealth of knowledge about the land, engaging them in the fight to protect biodiversity, makes so much sense. I am grateful that we are moving towards wildlife friendly farming. Thanks for doing this important work!

@inharmonywithearth9982 Жыл бұрын

Wildlife friendly farming is extremely rare. I don't recall ever meeting any yet. All my farming neighbors all exterminate everything possible and call themselves " Avid" hunters.

@jimcrelm9478 Жыл бұрын

@@inharmonywithearth9982 I don't see an ecological problem with sustainable hunting/deer stalking, particularly if large predators have been wiped out and not replaced. Could be morally corrupting though. But then there's trophy hunting, killing wolves etc. which is disgusting and destructive. Don't know how sustainable the average hunter in the US is, perhaps not very if the general attitude is similar to what it is this on side of the Atlantic.

@cobococreek1224 2 ай бұрын

@@inharmonywithearth9982"Farmers" are short sighted and do whatever it takes to make money to fund their "way" of doing things which overall is not regenerative or sustainable. Eco-agriculturists as I like to call myself, are trying to artfully design a "farm" that supports biodiversity and health for all local species, including the human.

@cobococreek1224 2 ай бұрын

I spent the last 2 days planting acorns I sporouted in what the previous owners mowed down 3x a year for hay. We can do this!

@billastell3753 Жыл бұрын

In Ontario Canada the farms are ripping out all the hedgerows. It's so sad to see the corridors of life are being destroyed for the sake of $. The government puts no value on nature because wild life doesn't pay taxes or make political donations..

@dave1455 Жыл бұрын

Same here in the UK but mainly small time greedy developers ripping gardens out to get houses in .My neighbour has ripped out a huge amount ,like 50- 100 year old Conifers and Apple -Plum trees, Pear , purple leaf plum trees .Shrubs of all sorts to get 2 new houses in .The conifer hedge was always full of birds looking for food ,nesting or sheltering in the cold .The developer had to leave half of one hedge as it's shared and there is a plum tree in it which is our side and that must be 50ft tall, it's in flower now and looks beautiful and the Robins sit in it year in year out singing and Blue Tits love it .

@doreentucker8815 8 ай бұрын

So sad 😢

@frankiaconis7788 4 ай бұрын

Agree with your statement. I haven't seen a pheasant or Jack rabbit in 20 years... coincides with the removal of these hedge rows

@esterhudson5104 3 ай бұрын

Probably because if the food you eat. Boycott your supermarket.

@esterhudson5104 3 ай бұрын

@@frankiaconis7788 more like overpopulation.

@PsychicIsaacs Ай бұрын

I live in a semi-arid climate and have hedgerows of Agave americana and Prickly Pear (Opuntia ficus indica) on my farm. Both of these plants are easy to establish and propagate and the offsets of the existing A. americana and the cuttings of Prickly Pear are sourced to provide propagation stock for new hedgerows. Another useful arid climate hedge plant is Euphorbia tirucalli. It is used in Africa to make protective hedgerows, to defend livestock from lions and other predators, and gardens from elephants and other large herbivores. Nothing wants to eat it, or even mess with it, because of its highly caustic, irritating sap and so it is ideal for keeping predators away from vegs and livestock.

@robynbrouckaert8304 Жыл бұрын

Hedgerows. They've grown naturally along the fence lines in my neck of the woods. So much to learn therein, and much to see

@Michael_McMillan Жыл бұрын

very informative

@doreentucker8815 8 ай бұрын

Excellent info thank you!

@wildfarmalliance9875 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@Sams_Uncle 5 ай бұрын

Real wisdom!

@GhostScout42 Ай бұрын

Probably would have been better if you showed some freshly laid hedges, or just maintained hedges

@marialuisaguardao9744 4 ай бұрын

🙏

@jenkemjones68 3 ай бұрын

Im trying to make a natural fence to keep my chickens in my backyard.My corkscrew willow shoots arrived today.My concern is how close can I plant them to my home without roots breaking my home's brick foundation?Anyone,please?

@yellard6785 12 сағат бұрын

I heard thrat you need at least 30 metres and better 50m..

@josesaldanha2683 5 ай бұрын

👏👏👏👏👏

@cobococreek1224 2 ай бұрын

People, quit being so strict on what YOU think a hedgerow is. Simply look up the definition, open your mind and plant something!

@D-proGram_Yousef Күн бұрын

How many times had Georgie jr. read children's books to schoolchildren prior to o9 ll. Zero..and with the media conveniently there to film the exact moment he's informed of the horrific tragedy what does he do? After listening long enough for the caller to say a couple of sentences he smirks like the cat that ate the canary. So the next day and way before the actual facts started to trickle out, I had already seen the writing on the wall. In hindsight it was that very finite moment in time that i knew.. that he already knew.

@AngelsArmour Жыл бұрын

Why do you call this a hedgerow? It is not one.

@wildfarmalliance9875 Жыл бұрын

One common definition for a hedgerow is simply a dense row of shrubs or low trees. Planting them along field edges can attract beneficial insects and birds to enhance pest control and pollination of crops.

@AngelsArmour Жыл бұрын

@Wild Farm Alliance In the first part of the video, you use the actual hedgrows in Europe as an example as if that's what you are recreating, which is not true. I'd suggest you use a different term to describe what you are doing to not do so would be disingenuous

@colonagray2454 6 ай бұрын

Disingenuous is a bit much dont you think? They are technically corect in any case and it doesn't have to be massive to count

@davidkendall589 Жыл бұрын

that's not a hedgerow.

@AngelsArmour Жыл бұрын

I know. I wanted to find content on actually hedgerows but there are so many videos that aren't hedgerows but people are calling them so. Now they are miss informing others 😢

@Madridme3 4 ай бұрын

Umm..global warming?..... right.. Click.

@user-xt3sd5kf5c 2 ай бұрын

Global warming, dont make a kick you

@YSLRD 3 күн бұрын

I'm on your team and think the comment is childish. Learn where you can- maybe thank them and add a critique of their politics.

@user-xt3sd5kf5c 2 күн бұрын

@@YSLRD to talk about a natural phenomenon that happens every 5000 years is childish, besides we cant go back to the stone age cuz of it, clean electricity will replace every fossile fuel in time and it will be fine, the problems is the world is going back to resoving problems with war and more war, that is the real problem in todays times, not the global warming political nonsase.