Come one, come all, step right up if you think you have what it takes to help the Lancashire Wildlife Trust restore a lowland raised peat bog in Greater Manchester.

Alex Hubberstey from the Lancashire Peat Partnership gives us a round up of the exciting work that’s been going on to restore one of our most iconic upland peatlands; Darwen Moor.

We are growing bulrushes on areas of re-wetted lowland agricultural peat, to investigate how we can reduce harmful carbon emissions from drained peatlands, whilst also keeping the land financially…

Rindle Field is a pioneering wetter farming (paludiculture) trial, investigating how traditional food crops can be grown on a re-wetted agricultural peatland.

Summer is finally here and so are the butterflies. Their return means it’s time for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust peatlands team to head out and survey the rare large heath butterfly on our…

The plants that live on our peatlands aren’t just any plants, they are all wonderfully unique and have adapted in incredible ways to survive and thrive on the harsh bog environment. But it turns…

Our precious peatlands face a barrage of threats; drainage for agriculture, burning for grouse moor management, and peat extraction for everything from filling bags of compost to growing that…

What is wetter farming? How do you do it? Why would you do it? What can you grow? What else do you need to think about?

The National Trust are a vital member of the Lancashire Peat Partnership, find out about their amazing work restoring Holcombe Moor.

Nearly a year ago, we took a positive step forward as Defra announced that they would ban the sale of compost containing peat by 2024. However, with that date slowly creeping up, there is no…