Hedgerows of natives as well as salvias must be encouraged. I have a very small farm(for California/America). I am trying to convert it to a fully no-till or a

Hedgerows of natives as well as salvias must be encouraged. I have a very small farm(for California/America). I am trying to convert it to a fully no-till or a semi-till set up. I know food growing commercial farms would find it unprofitable/difficult to be ecologically friendly but it’s not impossible to incorporate a few hedgerows in the middle of 100 acre fields. It’s stark now. We even truck in bees to pollinate our almond orchards, but that’s another story for another post. Right now, I have hedgerows every half acre. The diversity of pollinators is pretty impressive. I use fennel, sage/salvias, yarrow to attract them. I also have elderberry and coyote bush for wintering birds. Grass..native grass is important too and when they drop seed. There are many bird species that are seed eating. Finches especially love them. Most seeds are high in oil. The insects are tasty too. For whatever reason, this year we got tree swallows nesting in the bluebird nesting boxes and it was a sight to behold to watch them swoop and swoon for their supper. At home, there are passifloras for hummingbirds and other proboscis pollinators. Orchards also need a variety of pollinators. Figs for example need wasps because the fruit is an inverted flower. But everyone is afraid of wasps. So there’s that. Butterflies need both nectar plants as well as host plants for larve. Usually they aren’t the same ones. Pollinator hedgerows should never be harvested and should be more or less left alone. I have mulberries and rugosa hedgerows for birds and deer. The deer love the rosehips(that’s why the roses shouldn’t be picked) and is a good food source for them in winter. Bunnies like to burrow under it. We even found some fox kits one winter. The benefit of wild hedgerows as perimeter planting is that it keeps the critters and birds full and busy at the edges of the farm. They won’t come in and devastate the orchard fruit. Sterilized and clean stripped farms are aesthetically pleasing to the eye but they are inefficient and require so much fossil fuel to maintain the illusion of order that farms are like literal open factories without the smoke stacks.