Chasing the Harestail was a social project for Jersey Heritage, exploring the relationships between migration, ecology and commerce, via the threatened Jersey handicraft of ‘harestailing’

Highly detailed displays by Jersey women using lagurus ovatus grasses—also known as ‘harestails’—are a familiar sight at the annual Battle of Flowers street parade that takes place each August. However, environmental regulations prohibiting the picking of harestail plants coupled with rising wholesale costs are leading many craftspeople to give up the practice altogether…