Hedge hoardings is a walk around Kings Hedges, following the ward’s ancient hedgerows, discovering plants and foraging. Led by artist Hermione Spriggs and local forager/historian Cab Davidson, this event explores hedges as edible places that offer a bounty of wild food to humans and other animals. Our walk takes in the ward’s oldest remaining stretch of hedgerow, traces the path of ghost-hedges, and ends in the centre of Kings Hedges where a new work of public art is being developed as part of the Resonance-Cambridge project.
For thousands of years, hedgerow has been planted and maintained as a human boundary-marker, demarcating parish boundaries, privately owned fields and common land. Kings Hedges takes its name from a royal hunting ground where hedges were planted to guide wild animals, making them easier to catch. Through observations of plant species and landforms present we can trace the history of Kings Hedges even further back to the Iron Age and the Roman occupation. Today, ancient hedgerow provides a safe haven for wild animals, also hosting a rich biodiversity of edible plant species for the human forager.
Campkin Road is part of Resonance-Cambridge, the public art programme commissioned by Cambridge Investment Partnership. Further information about the creative programme can be found at http://resonance-cambridge.co.uk/developments/campkin-road/
This walk will be run according to the government safety guidelines in place at the time. Updated information about the walk and guidelines will be posted on the booking system.
Everyone on the walk will be required to wear a face mask, so we kindly ask that you bring your own.