Thanks to Storm Bert, we have one kilometre of hedge to plant in one day - for our community meadows below Swinford lock. Come and help us set a record - and bring all your friends!

 

NRN's Hedge in Time Project began in 2020 in the Witney Road playground during Covid, since then NRN members have planted nearly two kilometres of hedgerow in 8 schools and villages in and around Eynsham. The idea, inspired by Freeland farmer Robert Crocker, is to connect up our villages, rivers and meadows by hedgerow

With the 600 metres that we all planted last year now flourishing, we are planning to plant nearly one kilometre this year, on the 60 acres of land that we have leased for us all to restore adjacent to the River Thames.
 
We will be in the Neyotts Meadow across the road from Long Mead, which runs from Oxford Road beyond the Talbot Inn to Eynsham Lock. We will leave from Long Mead at 10.00am. It is always helpful if you can arrive at the beginning so that we can brief everyone together. But if you can’t make it then, we’d love to see you anyway.
 
There will be cake but please bring a thermos and a picnic lunch, spades, secateurs and gloves if you have them. We can provide them if you don't. And wellies - it is likely to be wet. 

Huge thanks to the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England and Wild Oxfordshire for funding the hedging plants as part of their Hedgerow Heroes Project.