The Hedgerow Handbook: Recipes, Remedies and Rituals

If there's one distinctive feature of the British countryside, it has to be the hedgerow. In fact, hedgerows are such an established part of our landscape that sometimes we take them for granted. Take a closer look, and the diversity and variety of plant species that form them is little short of wondrous. It is not only plant life that thrives in abundance in the hedgerow—native wild animals, birds, and insects are protected and nourished by them. We know that at least 65 species of birds l...