‘A win-win for farmers’: how flooding fields in north-west England could boost crops

<p>A ‘wetter farming’ project explores rehydrating peatland to help grow crops in boggier conditions while cutting CO2 emissions</p><p>“I really don’t like the word ‘paludiculture’ – most people have no idea what it means,” Sarah Johnson says. “I prefer the term ‘<a href="https://www.lancswt.org.uk/blog/what-wetter-farming">wetter farming</a>’.”</p><p>The word might be baffling, but the concept is simple: <a href="https://www.paludiculture.org.uk/">paludiculture</a> is the use of wet peatlands for agriculture, a practice that goes back centuries in the UK, including growing reeds for thatching roofs.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/02/win-win-farmers-how-rewetting-peatland-boost-crops-cut-co2">Continue reading...</a>