One of the largest costs to upland peatland restoration is the purchase of plug plants, most often sphagnum mosses due to the number needed to restore habitats. Back in 2024 Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s peatland programme partnered with Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s Greenhouse Project to grow plug plants in a greenhouse run by volunteers.

Being in your garden watching birds feed on the many varieties of food on feeders and splash in the bath is one of the joys of life, whether you live in the town or country.

Frozen kettles and a busy Winter at the Greenhouses. Lynne Goodacre provides us with an update.

My name is Oliver Hill. I have been working alongside the Lancashire Wildlife Trust for half a year. The reason I am writing this blog is to show the work that I have done with the Trust and the different jobs that I have done to build up my experience and confidence.

Dr. Suma Mani from Manchester Metropolitan University talks about how the water table is key in both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and growing food on our wetter farming trial site.