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.

Swarth Moor is a pocket of unique and wonderful habitat within the Yorkshire Dales...

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…

As we look ahead to brighter weather in the coming months, I thought it would be nice to reflect on the wonders that a summer bog provides.

There is more than meets the eye when gazing upon a blanket bog (upland peat bog) carpeted in sphagnum moss, shrubs and sedges.

The 2021/22 report from Yorkshire Peat Partnership identified that in total approximately 6,500 ha of foot surveys have been completed by the team since 2009.

“A bog?”
Yes, a peat bog.
“What’s a peat bog?”

Peat cores evidence thousands of years of climate and environmental change. So, what are our cores telling us about Yorkshire’s landscape?