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

A wetter farming' project explores rehydrating peatland to help grow crops in boggier conditions while cutting CO2 emissions

I really don't like the word paludiculture' - most people have no idea what it means," Sarah Johnson says. I prefer the term wetter farming'."

The word might be baffling, but the concept is simple: paludiculture is the use of wet peatlands for agriculture, a practice that goes back centuries in the UK, including growing reeds for thatching roofs.