Talking paludiculture

• Building on experience with the carbon farm – a rewetted area with management that is actively seeking to build peat again in the landscape

• Opportunities to integrate paludiculture into arable and horticultural systems on peat soils

• Innovators and farmers sharing experiences and their desire to grow ‘something’ and produce crops for a range of uses

• Land use history from personal experience on the Lancashire Mosses

• Current support for farmers looking at land use and management change

• Winmarleigh Carbon Farm

• Economics for farming carbon compared with low intensity grazing

• Opportunities and challenges for paludiculture crops

• On-going work with farmer groups in the Somerset Levels

• Experiences trying to grow Typha (bullrush) as a crop

• The vision of mosaic landscapes with protected sites, wetter grasslands, paludi-crops and green finance options

• Landscape and land use within Somerset Levels

• Flood risk management with increasing extreme weather

• Exploring landscape change opportunities

• The role of paludiculture in landscape transitions

• Challenges to change for farming systems

Peat are highly productive black soils, in this podcast Chris and Elizabeth discuss their importance in carbon management and their importance in helping us to achieve net zero. First published in December 2023 as part of the future farming resiliance podcast series.

• What is paludiculture?

• What is wetter farming?

• Active rewetting projects for wetter farming, paludiculture and restoration can be found here>>

• How can farmers explore their options with these new crops and systems?