Sunday, February 22 2026
Hedge-laying Workshop - Day Two
Part Two of our Hedge Laying workshop weekend where we'll be getting practical!
Come and learn how to lay a hedge with the Oxford Conversation Volunteers (OCV) as part of our Hedge in Time Project, an initiative inspired by local Farmer Robert Crocker that aims, over time, to connect up our villages with a network of hedgerow wildlife corridors.
OCV will be helping us to lay the hedges in Swinford Meadows across the river from Long Mead Wildlife Site. Oxford Preservation Trust has kindly leased Swinford Meadows to Long Mead Foundation and Nature Recovery Network for us to restore for our local wildlife.
- Saturday 21st Feb - Join OCV's hedge-laying training workshop & practical - 10am - 3pm. Please REGISTER.
- Sunday 22nd Feb - Hedge Laying Day at Swinford Meadow - all welcome - 10am - 3pm Please REGISTER
Past participants of our hedge-laying workshops are particularly encouraged to join in as, in line with our NRN mission, we are wanting to build, over time, our own local expert hedge-laying team.
If you have no experience of hedge laying please first attend the training workshop on Saturday 21st February.
Use the map below to get to Swinford Meadows. We will be laying the hedge between Swinford Pastures North and South. Safest access, unless it is flooding is along the towpath there is a gate into Swinford Pastures from Swinford Meadows. Please look for email updates this week and see directions under location instructions and map below. If you are late, follow the white dotted line across the Neyotts Meadow to the Lock and up the towpath. Call the phone numbers on the map in case of difficulty.