Another way to reduce peat use without sacrificing smoke is to age in ex-peated whisky casks. This is what the farm-to-bottle distillery Lochlea in Ayrshire did to create its latest malt, Smoke ...

Next time you need fresh soil for your flower bed, balcony box or herb pot on the windowsill, make sure that it is peat-free. Environmentalists are keen to make small-scale gardeners aware of the ...

As horticulture moves away from peat as a growing medium, Tiernaneill Mushrooms has carried out an industrial scale peat ...

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The climate crisis upends life in countless ways large and small, including potentially ending one beloved 1,000-year-old tradition. Peated whiskies, flavored with decaying organic matter from bogs, ...

HortWeek podcast documentary series The End of Peat has been shortlisted in the radio broadcast or podcast of the year ...