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
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
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
Across the world, some peat meadows are subsiding. How can we stop this? Earlier this month, researchers from Palus Demos met at the Palus Demos satellite location in Hegewarren, where related research activities are taking place as part of the overarching Palus Demos project. Adriaan Hellemans, work package (WP) leader for WP1: Developing Paludiculture Demonstrators, … Read more
Across Europe, there’s growing interest in the commercial and environmental benefits of paludiculture. Like any farming, it’s not without its challenges, but artificial intelligence could help unleash paludiculture’s potential. Earlier this year, experts from Ireland, the UK, Netherlands, Lithuania, Belgium, Germany and Finland came together at the fourth RRR (Renewable Resources from Wet and Rewetted … Read more
Sphagnum moss is one of the key crops being trialled by Palus Demos and, last month, volunteers from LeaveNoTrace and Deloitte joined us at Ballaghurt to plant hundreds of sphagnum plugs. Sphagnum moss can be a key ingredient of horticultural compost. Depending on the species, it can hold between 16 and 26 times its own … Read more
At Palus Demos, our aim is to bring about real change – especially for farmers and industry. That’s why, over the coming months and years, we will be publishing “practice abstracts” on our site. These are short, user-friendly summaries of practical information or outcomes from a project, research or study. They’re designed for farmers, advisors … Read more
Several Palus Demos partners featured in an article in The Irish Times on 10 April 2025. Irish Times reporter Seán Duke spoke to Palus Demos coordinator Niall Ó Brolcháin at the University of Galway, which leads this wetland farming project for over 30 European partners across Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands. In the article, … Read more