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Alan Adcock - hedges

Born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, Alan started his farming career at Chadacre Agricultural Institute near Bury St Edmunds.  From there he went on to a large farm near Stowmarket and subsequently grew all sorts of crops for Birds Eye.  Alan was the farm manager on a private estate in Ongar, Essex, before starting his own business from 1987, "Garden, Forestry & Agricultural Contracts".

Courses by this Tutor
  • Hedgelaying
    17 November 2012
    9.00 - 4.00
    £70 including home-made lunch, biscuits & cakes

    Come and learn to lay hedges the Suffolk way, from a real Suffolk man!  Click on Alan's name above to see more about him.

    Hedgelaying is a traditional way of making a hedge stock proof, i.e. cutting and weaving and tying the branches so that the end result is an impenetrable...