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Can you grow lettuce on a bog?
Our Rindle wetter farming trial has just been planted up with this years crop of celery and lettuce. But how do you grow crops on a peat bog, and why would you even try?
Our Rindle wetter farming trial has just been planted up with this years crop of celery and lettuce. But how do you grow crops on a peat bog, and why would you even try?
The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside is asking everyone to become a ‘Peat Inspector’ and get on the lookout for hidden peat.
Another piece of the peatland puzzle in Greater Manchester is to be solved thanks to funding to bring a new area of peat bog into restoration.
The first stage of our exciting bulrush wetter farming trial, to re-wet the peat, is complete. Find out what we’ve been doing, why and what’s next.
Over £1.5 million secured for the restoration of irreplaceable peatlands in the North West.
Carnivorous sundews plants have been reintroduced to Winmarleigh Moss in Lancashire, after habitat destruction caused them to disappear over 100 years ago.
A statement from Lancashire Wildlife Trust
We are delighted that a controversial plan to build over 800 houses on an area of precious lowland peatland in Greater Manchester have been…
Swaying bulrushes on a Manchester peatland could soon sashay their way onto the catwalks of the fashion world.
Three years ago there were no Manchester argus butterflies in Manchester. Now, not only are they back, but they’re flourishing.