Two years ago, Sonia Feertchak had a revelation.
A summer stay in the country house of an English friend introduced her to an Ancien Régime countryside, as it should be in this country which likes to preserve what does not deserve to be changed.
She promised to bring the bocage up to date in her country, and above all to restore the hedge at the edge of the meadow to all its philosophical dignity.
The figures for the great extinction of this plant border are there, compiled by our Parisian herbalist: in total, she tells us,
“
70% of wild hedges have disappeared in France since 1950, or 1.4
million kilometers
”.
If the Hedge were a first people, this would end in the court, if not of The Hague, at least of History.
The removal of hedges in France has even gone so far that today the European Commission is encouraging their partial reconstitution.
Of course, there is a world of difference between intention and its proper execution.
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