John O’Sullivan is a west of Ireland farmer who needed new ways to keep his family business, Derreighter Farm, viable.
For John, paludiculture is a practical response to real pressure — a potential income stream that works with the land rather than against it.
Sinéad Grimes of Forum Connemara sees it as something bigger: a way to restore degraded peatlands, give farmers a less intensive way of working, and tackle land abandonment in rural Ireland.
In the first episode of the Palus Demos Podcast, they talk farming, climate, and the future of Europe’s peatlands.
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