Hedge Hub Resources

Hedge Your Best

In our short film marking National Hedgerow Week 2024, hedge-conscious farmers explore the best ways to make their hedgerows work for the farm business, delivering…

Are you Hedging Your Best? No more excuses!

Are you Hedging your Best? No more excuses for poor hedge management! #hedgeyourbest Contact your local FWAG Group: www.fwag.org.uk/contact

Are You Hedging Your Best? You’d be a fool not to!

Are you Hedging Your Best? These days you’d be a fool not to! #hedgeyourbest To contact your local FWAG Group visit: www.fwag.org.uk/contact

Managing hedges for invertebrates

Hedges are rich habitats for invertebrates, especially if managed well. Rob Wolton has recorded over 1,800 species from a single hedge in Devon, an ordinary…

Britain’s hedges need to grow up! Harnessing the full potential of our hedgerows

Hedgerow trimming for wildlife, carbon and farming

Article by Colin Clutterbuck for the National Hedge Laying Society newsletter outlining exciting and innovative way of trimming to create a hedgerow shape excellent for…

Healthy Hedges Trimming Guide

Trimming hedges keeps them healthy with thick new growth and no gaps

A straightforward no nonsense single-sided guidance note on hedge trimming for farmers and contractors developed by Simeon Day (FWAGSW) with help from hedge group members.

Hedgerows

A guide to wildlife and management

This guide will explain how to make your hedgerows more wildlife friendly

Increasing the value of hedges for wildlife with relaxed cutting regimes

Summary report of findings of ongoing research that tested the effects of hedgerow cutting regimes on five farms over 3 years

The Economics of Sustainable Hedge Cutting

A report commissioned by the Devon hedge Group analysing the economics of hedge cutting

Hedgerow Management

A study of farmers' and Contractors' attitudes

A report on a survey of farmers and contractors that aimed to increase understanding of the causes of poor hedgerow management