We are pleased to share our new case study with our partners Region Hannover for their peatland restoration project on Totes Moor, Germany using our BeadaHumok® Sphagnum moss plugs.
The full case study can be found below and also on our Resources & Research page:
We had a fantastic start to the week thanks to The Royal Parks, who invited us on a site visit to Richmond Park in preparation for a project to reintroduce Sphagnum moss to the area.
A big thank you to Bobby, Peter and Holly from The Royal Parks for giving us a tour around the boggier spots of this impressive park.
And another big thank you to Richard Lindsay and Jack Clough from University of East London for joining us, providing us with their Sphagnum identification expertise and for showing us how amazing Sphagnum looks under a microscope.
Such a valuable, knowledge-sharing experience. We can’t wait to collaborate further on such an exciting project!
We’re celebrating World Wetlands Day today by shining the spotlight on our favourite type of wetland – peatlands. They provide crucial ecoservices such as promoting biodiversity, carbon storing and sequestration, flood and wildfire control, and water filtration to name a few.
Sphagnum moss, the dominant peat former, can store huge quantities of water in its cells, and can hold up to 20x its own weight in water. Re-wetting damaged peatlands and reintroducing Sphagnum is key to preventing further CO2 emissions being lost from exposed peat and to help restore peatlands to carbon-sequestering sinks.
BeadaMoss have just supplied their 25 millionth BeadaHumok® for peatland restoration across the UK and Northern Europe! 🎉
A huge thank you to all of our partners for enabling us to contribute and support the restoration of one of the world’s most important ecosystems, from upland bogs to lowland peatlands.
Please follow our LinkedIn page for further updates on the world of Sphagnum, including news of incredible peatland restoration projects, the latest academic studies and more.
For further information regarding our Sphagnum restoration work, click the link below: https://beadamoss.com/peatland-restoration-our-work/
On Monday, we swapped our desks for the bog and visited our partners, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust and the Natural England Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve team, on Hatfield Moor. A big thank you to Joe Carter for giving us a fun and educational tour and to Julian Small, Natural England, for providing an insight into different approaches required for lowland bogs in comparison to blanket bogs. It helped to put what we do into perspective.
We wanted to highlight this recently published video from LIFE Moor Site, showcasing the peatland restoration in action across the Humberhead Peatlands, carried out by Natural England staff and dedicated volunteers:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6iKE1-zKWU
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Our last day in the office will be Tuesday 23rd December before breaking up for the holidays. We’ll return on Monday 5th January 2026, ready to continue delivering our BeadaHumok® and moorland plug plants for more peatland restoration projects!
Kinder Scout was first planted with Sphagnum over a decade ago. Thanks to the hard work of Moors for the Future Partnership, the National Trust and many dedicated volunteers, Kinder has become a valuable demonstrator site for the benefits of upland peatland restoration. Before these interventions, the site was a net emitter of CO₂e.
Today, with millions of our BeadaHumok® Sphagnum moss plugs planted on Kinder Scout to accelerate Sphagnum establishment, it is sequestering carbon, supporting richer biodiversity, and delivering improved water management across the landscape.
We’re proud to play a part in such a transformational project:
We’re delighted that ‘The most important plant in the world’ by Caroline Vitzthum has been selected for the 2025 Frome International Climate Film Festival and has recently been screened at the Little Tree Cinema in Frome. It is also currently showing in LIMBO, a group exhibition on peatlands as terrains in flux at De Proef. (Drenthe, NL). The exhibition is initiated by RE-PEAT, and the film showing will run until 7th December. You can find out more here: https://www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/news/re-peat-presents-limbo-collective-exhibition-peatlands-terrains-flux
The film, commissioned by IUCN UK Peatland Programme, focuses on a collaboration between Moors for the Future Partnership and BeadaMoss to reintroduce Sphagnum moss to a peatland site in the Peak District.
It first premiered at the IUCN UK Peatland Programme’s Peatlands, People, and Nature conference in Aviemore in September 2024.
The link to the full film can be found below – we would highly recommend giving it a watch!
For more information regarding our BeadaHumok and our Sphagnum restoration work, please see the link below: https://beadamoss.com/peatland-restoration-our-work/
“I never knew plugging moss could make me so happy” says Anita Rani.
We couldn’t have asked for a better way to start the week than seeing Sphagnum moss getting the attention it deserves on the latest episode of Countryfile! A huge shout out to Sian Russell and the team at Somerset Wildlife Trust for their hard work planting our BeadaHumok® Sphagnum plugs on Westhay Moor.
With millions of viewers per episode, we’re delighted that Sphagnum moss and the benefits it provides to peatland restoration can be brought to a wider audience through a programme like Countryfile.
Check out Sunday’s episode here if you didn’t catch it:
https://lnkd.in/gCRwdr-X
We hosted our partners from Moors for the Future Partnership at BeadaMoss HQ this week.
It was a great opportunity to showcase some of our micropropagation processes, our three acres of glasshouse production, and our packing and despatch operations for our BeadaHumok® plugs – but also to hear first-hand from one of our largest partners about the real-world challenges of upland peatland restoration.
A genuinely fun and informative morning – thanks to the team at Moors for the Future Partnership for coming.
For more information about our work and our sustainable facilities, see the link below: https://beadamoss.com/about-us-2/