How to go peat free at home
Our homes and gardens have an important role in the fight against climate change. Help preserve vital peatland by going peat free.
Our homes and gardens have an important role in the fight against climate change. Help preserve vital peatland by going peat free.
Learn a tradition with its roots in the Iron Age and build your own mini dry stone wall to attract wildlife.
Planting herbs will attract important pollinators into your garden, which will, in turn, attract birds and small mammals looking for a meal.
Instead of sending your green waste to landfill, create your own compost.
Log piles are perfect hiding places for insects, providing a convenient buffet for frog, birds, and hedgehogs too!
Build your own bug mansion and attract a multitude of creepy crawlies to your garden.
Build your own bat box and give a bat a safe place to roost.
Instead of draining, make the waterlogged or boggy bits of garden work for nature, and provide a valuable habitat.
Plant wildflower with seed bombs!
Attract birds all year round by creating a wildlife-friendly garden
Provide food for caterpillars and choose nectar-rich plants for butterflies and you’ll have a colourful, fluttering display in your garden for many months.
Written by Lowri Watkins, Senior Evidence Officer