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ORGANIZER:Long Mead Foundation & Nature Recovery Network
DTSTART:20251214T100000Z
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LOCATION:Neyotts Common Eight Community Meadow
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DESCRIPTION:--- This iCal file does *NOT* confirm registration.\r\nEvent details subject to change. ---\r\nhttps://nature-recovery-network.org/events/144/\r\n\r\nEvent Title: Hedge-Planting: Creating a Network for Nature\r\nStart Date / Time: Dec 14, 2025 10:00 AM Europe/London\r\nLocation: Neyotts Common Eight Community Meadow\r\nATTENDEES PLEASE READ OUR RISK ASSESSMENT!\r\n \r\nThe continuation of our epic one kilometre of hedge laid in January in one day! Come and help us extend the hedge as part of our ambitious Hedge in Time project at our community meadows below Swinford lock.\r\n \r\nThis NRN 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\r\n\r\nThe whips that we all planted last year now flourishing, and so we are planning to plant even more 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, off the Oxford Road beyond the Talbot Inn (What3words motel.hinders.regrowth). The Neyotts is on Wharf Stream Way and runs from the Oxford Road to Eynsham Lock. See the map on the right of this page, under 'Location'\r\nThe meadows have been leased by us for us to restore as a community as a mosaic of habitats - meadows, hedgerows, wetland and woodlands. It makes us the first community-driven landscape scale restoration project in the County and probably beyond. \r\nWe 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&rsquo\;t make it then, we&rsquo\;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. \r\n\r\n\r\nHuge thanks to our formidable Wednesday Team without whose preparation we wouldn't be here. \r\nThanks also to all our community organisations for coming together to make 'our whole greater than the sum of our parts' and to our partners in the wider landscape - the Oxford Conservation Volunteers, the Wychwood Forest Trust as well as to the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England and Wild Oxfordshire for funding the all-important the hedging plants.\r\n \r\n--- This iCal file does *NOT* confirm registration.Event details subject to change. ---\r\n\r\n--- By Tendenci - The Open Source AMS for Associations ---\r\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<div>--- This iCal file does *NOT* confirm registration.Event details subject to change. ---</div><h1>Event Title: Hedge-Planting: Creating a Network for Nature</h1><div>https://nature-recovery-network.org/events/144/</div><br /><div>When: Dec 14, 2025 10:00 AM Europe/London</div><br /><div><div>ATTENDEES PLEASE <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HcS-mCEQlLnqnU6vwTOCVPLa_IWJwyMv/view?usp=sharing">READ OUR RISK ASSESSMENT</a>!</div>
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<div>The continuation of our epic one kilometre of hedge laid in January in one day! Come and help us extend the hedge as part of our ambitious Hedge in Time project at our community meadows below Swinford lock.</div>
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<div>This NRN 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</div>
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<p>The whips that we all planted last year now flourishing, and so we are&nbsp\;planning to plant even more this year, on the 60 acres of land that we have leased for us all to restore adjacent to the River Thames.<br />&nbsp\;<br />We will be in the Neyotts Meadow, off the Oxford Road beyond the Talbot Inn (What3words&nbsp\;<em>motel.hinders.regrowth</em>). The Neyotts is on Wharf Stream Way and runs from the Oxford Road to Eynsham Lock. See the map on the right of this page, under 'Location'</p>
<p>The meadows have been leased by us for us to restore as a community as a mosaic of habitats - meadows, hedgerows, wetland and woodlands. It makes us the first community-driven landscape scale restoration project in the County and probably beyond.&nbsp\;</p>
<p>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&rsquo\;t make it then, we&rsquo\;d love to see you anyway.<br />&nbsp\;<br />There will be cake but please bring a thermos and a picnic lunch, spades, secateurs and&nbsp\;gloves if you have them. We can provide them if you don't. And wellies - it is likely to be wet.&nbsp\;</p>
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<p>Huge thanks to our formidable Wednesday Team without whose preparation we wouldn't be here.&nbsp\;</p>
<p>Thanks also to all our community organisations for coming together to make 'our whole&nbsp\;greater than the sum of our parts' and to our partners in the wider landscape - the Oxford Conservation Volunteers, the Wychwood Forest Trust as well as to the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England and Wild Oxfordshire for funding the all-important the hedging plants.</p>
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