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-==== 5 February 2024: Dead hedge ====
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-At the previous meeting on the 28th January, we coppiced some of the hazel bushes
-to reduce excess crowding and shading of the woodland floor,
-to encourage more growth of woodland flowers such as bluebells, wood anemones, celandines, wild arum, etc.
-Today we used some of the cut hazel branches and twigs to build a "dead hedge".
-This used the stouter hazel poles, cut to length and sharpened at one end,
-hammered into the ground as uprights to form an enclosure about three metres long by 0.5 metres wide.
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-We strengthened this by weaving thinner branches horizontally in and out of the poles.
-We then started filling the centre of the structure with "brash"
-(unwanted twiggy bits cut from the sides and ends of the bigger branches)
-to provide a hiding place for small mammals, insects, etc.
-  * https://www.rspb.org.uk/helping-nature/what-you-can-do/activities/build-a-dead-hedge-for-wildlife
-  * https://www.woodlands.co.uk/blog/woodland-activities/dead-hedging-wildlife-friendly-and-people-guiding/
-If instead you're thinking of **//live//** hedges,
-if all the hedges in England were straightened out and lined up end-to-end,
-they would stretch nearly ten times around the Earth
-(https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68132688)
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