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Six threads we keep pulling on: what grows in the edge, what lives in it, and what the weather does to both.

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The wild strip nobody planted on purpose, and everything living in it.

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Counting, listening and being wrong about what you just heard.

Weather

Rain, frost and the days that decide the rest of the season.

Trees

Planting, felling and the slow argument between a canopy and a field.

Ground

Soil, tracks and what walked through before you did.

Seasons

The same half-mile, twelve months apart, and what it will not repeat.

Latest across every thread

The three most recent dispatches, whatever they are about.

The owl that used the same post for four winters

Mar 11, 2024

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8 min read

The owl that used the same post for four winters

She was not sitting there for the view. Four years of watching one fencepost taught us what it was for.

Ingrid Solheim
Ingrid Solheim
Nobody builds a nest the way the book says

Feb 5, 2024

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11 min read

Nobody builds a nest the way the book says

Every guide draws one cup of woven grass. Twenty nests from one hedge, and no two agreed.

Ingrid Solheim
Ingrid Solheim
Why the haws came three weeks early

Feb 9, 2024

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7 min read

Why the haws came three weeks early

A hedge fruiting ahead of schedule is not good news, and the reason is duller than the weather.

Wren Ackroyd
Wren Ackroyd

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