00:00We have two farms established, the first polluted culture trials on farms in Ireland, and we're trialing the different crops that will grow well in wet peat.
00:14Traditionally, farmers would drain the peat and grow things. That creates all the environmental problems. We need to see what can grow in wet peat.
00:20So we've set up these two farms, and we're growing a range of things, herbs, vegetables, fruits, materials for horticulture, for building, and so on.
00:28And we bring other peatland farmers here, and we show them all the different things that they can grow.
00:36We survey the peatlands for the farmers, and the peatland code gives us indications of the emissions you expect from those areas.
00:43So this is Cutover Woodland. So predictive emissions from here, when it's dry, is 12 tonnes of CO2 per hectare per year.
00:50So, of course, when it's wet, that's 11 to 12 tonnes avoided.
00:53And the kind of assumption is, we say it's 100 euros a tonne of CO2, that's an indicative income stream for that type of habitat.
01:00The technical challenges are, it's never been done before. It's all learning, so we have to try it.
01:09It's unique. A lot of this work has been done in the UK and Europe, but it's focused on specific plants.
01:14But here, we want to give the farmers the options. So we're trialling a whole range of things, up to 20 different varieties of plants and trees here.
01:22Some plants are more difficult than others, so the farmer can pick what they want. So we're giving them the options.
01:29So we're giving them the options.
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