📢New paper on planting #hedgerows

How much additional soil carbon builds up after planting hedges on grassland?

We looked at hedge #soil carbon storage across regions with different geologies and climate in England

📜doi.org/10.1016/j.agee…

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Join @FavColour_Green and @JRfromStrickley for the Hedge Safari @Groundswellaguk - today at 1pm and tomorrow at midday. New for 2025 - the hedge has been laid

Great piece on @BBCFarmingToday about the impact of capital grants freeze on hedges

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

They're calling for those that have been affected by this grants freeze to contact them-please do! This is too important not to make a noise about
farming.today@bbc.co.uk

7/7 huge thank you to @chapmanpippa @rggeo @geojho Jonathan Leake, Holly Armitage, Sarah Hunt and Guy Ziv for co-authoring the paper! and thanks to @FoodSecurityUK @BBSRC for the support

here is the link to the #openaccesspaper: doi.org/10.1016/j.agee…

❣️PS. Plenty of excellent advice on how to take care of hedges from @FavColour_Green and hedgelink.org.uk 🤓🌳

Bonus picture of a spooky hedge sitting at the boundary of a field and a cemetery! Josiah Judson hard at work here 🔨

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📣 New #hedgerow paper!
Planting hedges is good for biodiversity, but how can we measure the animal activity around them?

We tested new tech to record and count birds and bats, without having to listen to them (...well, mostly)🐦🦇🔊🌳

🗎authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…
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7/8 There is a lot packed in this paper and I am so proud it’s finally out!

Huge thank you to @chapmanpippa @engler_j @BillKunin @drguyziv for co-authoring and to @FoodSecurityUK @BBSRC
for the support

Here is the link to the #openaccesspaper: authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S00…

8/8 PS. This work features in a special issue on the use of novel technologies to monitor the impact of agri-environmental schemes (AES).

1000s km of hedges will be planted in UK AES over the next couple of decades

Nothing will replace the field experts! 🤓 but tech can help 🤖