Start em young

[Image description: a picture of a stroller on the edge of a street with a child in the seat. In the tray of the stroller is a pair of secateurs, while several young beaked hazelnut bushes spill out from the bin on the bottom of the stroller]

Yesterday I took my daughter out to harvest some beaked hazelnut (*Corylus cornuta var. cornuta*) bushes from a naturally occurring stand on the side of our street. We took ten rooted cuttings from a patch of several dozen established bushes, all from within the range of the town’s flail mower. They’ve since been planted into a hedge on one of the boundaries of our property, never to be mowed down again.