The last Sunday of July means that International Bog Day is upon us here in Yorkshire and, of course, around the globe. It’s a day when we celebrate bogs, fens, swamps, mires, muskegs and marshes…

In 2011, the UK Government set a voluntary target for the use of peat in amateur horticulture to be phased out by 2020. In 2021, Defra launched a consultation on whether the use of peat in…

We (Emma, Gautier and I) are on some peatland in a side dale off Wensleydale to set up five monitoring plots as part of the Ure Dales project (more on why this is important later) funded by Defra…

The language we use to discuss peatlands undermines and maligns them; they absolutely deserve more from us...

On 12th April, we will be opening a really special exhibition in Ilkley. It’s the culmination of a 2-year project to help people in the surrounding areas get closer to the peatlands – closer in…

Over recent years, we have seen increasing awareness about the use of peat in compost we buy...

As autumn trudges in, we trudge out onto the moors to start the restoration season, swaddled in layers, heads bowed in obeisance to the weather.

A spring transect across one of our restoration sites.

The Government’s Nature for Climate (NfC) funding scheme is drawing to a close in March 2025 (as far as we know) and we at Yorkshire Peat Partnership wanted to take a little time to celebrate what…

Finding your own voice in nature poetry