Hedge Row Planters

[nanouk]

last year, on the 28th of January, i went out walkabouts with a friend who likes metal detecting...walked down the pre-Roman path intop the valley...it was about 12.30-1 am, and very dark. All of a sudden i was struck by a very pungent smell, like, erm, musk, or very very strong skunk, or maybe horse shoe truffles.

i don't know,

anyway, we lit our torch and got our noses to the ground, the earth was scratched everywhere, holes dug, roots torn, etc. further down the path, i discovered dozens and dozens of little pits, all in a straightish line, parallell to the old hedge row - of varying size and shape, and in them a variety of berries, droppings, and other unidentifyable objects, (it was dark). all going on for about 20-30 feet!
i have never ever seen anything like it.

i wonder if anyone has observed or stumbled upon anything similar, nature's architects in action, so to say. i have googled and searched for evidence of such, but according to all my sources, hedge rows are man made phenomena.

Love and Respect,
~n~

[Rob P]

.......
If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May Queen
Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on
And it makes me wonder
........
maye the piper's calling you to join him....
sounds interesting Nanouk
r o b

[nanouk]

*lol*

oh don't say that! that's Who the fairy tales have warned us girls about throughout the centuries! ;)

[nanouk]

but yeah, Pan is definately nearby, i think this is an old "Fosse Way" or Fox's Way, as we know it...these paths were tread by peoples way before the C.E. and the communities then knew where the animal's paths were, the safest way from A to B, or, as the Crows Fly, as they say.

It is intriguing how the Fox always runs diagonally...

~n~

[willoweyes]

Nanouk and Rob P, how happily I enjoyed this exchange. Thank you.

Studies on hedgerows have revealed their manifold benefits--they are veins of health in a beseiged landscape. In areas which contain them, they provide diversity, windbreaks, and (yes) "faerie" pathways where the small humble things can creep.

Simply, they are highways of life.

Unfortunately in America, hedgerows have proven to be of no use to the factory farm. Diversity means weeds, and the humble creeping things do not produce a blip in the GNP. So they are being destroyed.

Brigid Brophy is quoted in Melissa Holbrook Pierson's "Dark Horses and Black Beauties":
"Whenever people say, 'We mustn't be sentimental' you can take it they are about to do something cruel. And if they add, 'We must be realistic', they mean they are going to make money out of it."

[dragonfly]

Sounds like hedgecraft (http://www.shadowdrake.com/witchcraft/hedge.html)...

[nanouk]

Phew!

you're right, i have only "touched" on the practice in a few reads...

...have seen these paths or lines above me as well, always thought i was hallucinating, but i suppose not. smile.gif

The Old Straight Track (http://www.hedgewytchery.com/crookedpath.html)

remember reading something by Paul Devereaux on the subject, and the Nasca Drawings/Lines are part of my own research...

Thanks, smile.gif

Love and Respect,
~n~

[JCCamp007]

Rats Nanouky rats Nanouk.That's all those hills were.

I can't get over,
"should I be afraid of you?"

I accept the my answer to the gods there.
That is,of course love and fear your gods so the ye maybe long and wit them.

[JCCamp007]

Talk about magic Nanouk let me tell you about my farm.It lies on Lake Eufaula and Interstate 40.When they built I-40 they went through a site ancient Indian community-Caddos or Mandans-anyway they were related to the mound builders.Maybe as many as 5000 people at this particular site on the Deep Fork arm of the Canadian system.
heses people lived down along the river but they buried their dead high upon the plateaus above the canyons.The graves are still there.
See it all on yahoo group PickOverFlow jons picture and story.Also google robert silvers,Picture of Christ.
All invited to come and help us fish and farm.We really need someone to work with the chickens and we also need someome who can-will cook and clean.

[ February 01, 2006, 04:50 AM: Message edited by: JCCamp007 ]

[Dna]

This where u live Jccamp07?
http://images.uswater.info/Maps/Map-Eufaula.gif

[JCCamp007]

No DNA.
I have a farm on Lake Eufaula,OKLAHOMA.
The name Eufaula was probably brought to Oklahoma by the Indians who were forced to move here in the 1800's.I believe there were over a 100 indian tribes moved here and were promised they could live here in peace and not be bothered anymore by white society.Yeah sure.
Of course by now,most of the people who live in Oklahoma have a bit of native American blood in them.
I am a direct decendant of Quanah Parker-Comanche chief and the founder of the Native American Church.I am also part Choctaw although I look like I'm mostly white.I guess the Indian part comes out in my personality.
I maintain that-for various reasons-(maybe in part it was because he had at least nine wives) Quanah changed his name and lived to be almost 150.I was his bodyguard and his personal physician for the last ten years of his life.
You can see both of our pictures on yahoo group-PickOverFlow-jon's pictures.
If you have the capacity to do so you can compare the scar on his upper lip and the mole on his cheek.Remember though the picture of the younger Quanah is a mirror image.He also had a scar on his leg where he was shot and also a small tattoo of a cross on his arm which he had removed.
There are alot of possibilities here on my farm in Oklahoma.
Thanks for the communication.