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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Graeme Green

‘A win-win for farmers’: how flooding fields in north-west England could boost crops

Bulrushes in a field
Bulrushes are a potential wetter farming crop that can be used for building materials and textiles. Photograph: Lancashire Wildlife Trust

“I really don’t like the word ‘paludiculture’ – most people have no idea what it means,” Sarah Johnson says. “I prefer the term ‘wetter farming’.”

The word might be baffling, but the concept is simple: paludiculture is the use of wet peatlands for agriculture, a practice that goes back centuries in the UK, including growing reeds for thatching roofs.

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