In the first of our spotlights on the people of the West Pennine Moors, we have Helen Drinkall, a farmer from Rivington.

Members of the Great Manchester Wetlands Land Managers’ Group recently got together to share their experience of being part of the group.

As part of our exciting wetter farming trials, we are growing a commercial crop of bulrushes on purposefully re-wetted agricultural peat fields. But one question we get asked again and again is…

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…

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?

Our pioneering Rindle wetter farming trial is working to support nature as well as our climate.

When a peatland is drained and converted to agriculture, the carbon that was stored in the peat oxidises and gets released into the atmosphere contributing to the climate emergency. As part of a…