This week, the Palus Demos team – farmers, industry partners, researchers and policymakers – are gathered in Manchester this week for our third partner meeting. To coincide with it, we are launching the Palus Demos YouTube channel — and we’ve put together a 10-minute video, introducing just some of our partners across farming, industry, academia … Read more
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 … Read more
Biodiversity has a soundtrack. We all hear birdsong, even in a concrete jungle, but when a landscape is truly thriving, layers of sound emerge: from the flutter of wings to the splash of a tail darting through the water. Oswin van der Scheer is listening closely at the Burkmeer site in Amsterdam, the pilot location … Read more
Typha at Burkmeer: Harvesting a Paludiculture Pioneer Typha, also known as bulrush or cattail, is one of the main paludiculture crops being trialled by Palus Demos. A versatile and sustainable plant, typha has significant potential as a material for both construction and textiles. At Burkmeer, just outside Amsterdam, one of our project partners is growing … Read more
Paludi4All project publishes new report on EU CAP 2023-2027 support for peatland and paludiculture The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is the European Union’s main framework for planning agriculture and rural development. For the 2023–2027 period, around €387 billion is being channelled through national CAP Strategic Plans across the Member States. The current CAP 2023–2027 creates … Read more
Palus Demos is hiring: Independent Ethics Advisor – Freelance/Consultancy Role Palus Demos, a four-year Horizon Europe project investigating the commercial viability of wetlands farming, is seeking an Independent Ethics Advisor on a consultancy basis to support its 26-partner consortium across Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands. About Palus Demos Palus Demos investigates paludiculture, or wetlands … Read more
Here at Palus Demos, we’re all about empowering farmers and industry with the transition to paludiculure. That’s why we work closely with our two sister projects, PaluWise and Paludi4All. PaluWise is using four large-scale demonstration sites to build the evidence base for advanced, production-focused solutions for the sustainable use of rewetted degraded peatlands, while Paludi4All … Read more
Palus Demos isn’t working alone – we’re part of a wider network of paludiculture and peatland projects across Europe. Our sister paludiculture project PaluWise is a Horizon Europe-funded initiative dedicated to accelerating the large-scale transition to paludiculture – the productive use of wet and rewetted peatlands. While traditional peatland management often relies on drainage (which … Read more
Paludiculture offers many options for farmers and industry. That’s why, on our 13 sites across the UK, The Netherlands and Ireland, we are trialling different crops and land uses, including typha, food and carbon farming. We’ve just launched an interactive map of these sites. This allows anyone to click on an icon and learn more … Read more
If you’ve been at a pub in Dublin or Cork in recent months, you may have spotted some specially commissioned beer mats, which tell the story of Ireland’s rich peatland heritage. The beermats include facts and figures about the cultural history and biodiversity of the island’s bogs, with artwork by Eleanor Brayden. The project is a … Read more