Wildlife Corridors
SFT have been planting hedgerows to act as wildlife corridors for the last 3 years. These enable birds, invertebrates and fauna to travel along protected pathways so they can spread their genes over a wider area and use the hedges for food, shelter and nest building, and of course hedgerows do their job of taking up carbon too.
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We have a map of these hedges, they are:
Abbey Road
Shona and Richard's
Another the other side of the by-pass
Mouse Lane
Two at the Football Club
St. Andrew and St. Cuthman`s Church
Two at Broadbourne Poultry Farm
Mini Copses and bluebells at Shooting Field
Saddlescombe Farm, Devil`s Dyke
Hedges 2022/23
Another at the Football Club
Another at Saddlescombe
Small hedge nr. King`s Barn Lane
Catholic Church
Artisan Bakehouse
Goring Road garden
Mini copses on Thornscroft Green
William Somerset : Patching - Sussex Ironworks (800 whips)
Hedges 2024/25
Angela & Liam, Sopers Lane (900 mixed native whips).
Upper Maudlyn Farm Trust (1000 mixed native whips)
Wiston Estate (1km length): helped with planting.
Gatewick House: (200m): help with planting.
Broadbourne Poultry Farm : hedge as protection for pond plus specialist trees (for Purple Emperor butterfly).
SFT : 15 disease resistant elms : various sites ( as host plants for White Letter Hairstreak butterflies).
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