Crunch time for saving our peatlands and celery may be the answer

In the first trial of its kind in the country, celery is to be grown in a pioneering 'wetter farming' project. The low-calorie vegetable, which helps the digestive and cardiovascular system, is being grown in a project aiming to show how degraded bogs can be restored to capture carbon, bolster biodiversity, and provide an income for farmers.

Wetter farming, also known as paludiculture, involves re-wetting land and growing crops that can tolerate higher water tables. The pilot project is the first time that anyone in the UK has trialled farming traditional food crops, such as celery, on land with a higher water table. Lancashire Peatlands Initiative Project Manager, Sarah Johnson, said: “We know that the current drainage and intensive agricultural use of our lowland peatlands is unsustainable, especially as we are facing a climate emergency.

Mike Longden, senior project officer, said: “We are seeing more and more farmland on peat soils becoming increasingly difficult for farmers to farm using current intensive methods, and this was the case with Rindle Field. This allowed the Wildlife Trust to purchase the land for this pioneering trial project.

Dr Stephanie Evers, Reader in Wetland Ecology and Biogeochemistry at LJMU, said: "We are leading the research monitoring the greenhouse gas dynamics of the pilot, and are so excited to be working on the first trials of this kind and scale in UK lowland bogs and working towards the development of sustainable peatland farming systems.

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