🔵 A fedge can offer so many benefits to your backyard ⚫ Fedges are typically made from berries 🔴 A fedge can also provide a great food source for both humans and wildlife There’s a fence and there’s a hedge. But have you ever heard of a fedge? A food fedge is a fence that is typically made out of living plants, usually a shrub, a vining plant, or a small tree. It can stand on its own or it can be weaved into an existing fence, said Bailey Sanders, Stewardship Specialist for the Barnegat Bay Partnership .
Benefits of a Food Fedge Not only does a food fedge add beauty to your hard, it also offers privacy between your yard and a neighbor’s yard. It’s also a great food source for pollinators, birds, wildlife, and humans, Sanders said. Hungry? By growing berries, you’ll have enough to make a great dessert, a jam, a pie, or even just pop them in your mouth one by one for a healthy snack.
Fedges can provide food to birds that winter in New Jersey, as well as provide food for birds that are migrating. That way they pluck out some berries as they’re moving across the state. Fedges can provide different types of habitats.
Smaller birds can use fedges to hide and escape large predators. There also pollinating benefits to fedges. They will flower and attract pollinators.
They will reap the benefits of having a food source of nectar, and then transferring pollen from plant to plant. There are soil erosion benefits, as well. “If there is anywhere specific where you’.