"Take your fingers and go, boom boom boom boom," he says, demonstrating how to pack a mixture of peat moss, dirt, lime, perlite and other components into galvanized metal boxes equipped with a lever.

It’s often mixed into peat-free composts, making up about 5-20% of the total, but you can also buy it on its own as a compressed block or as loose fibres. The blocks expand into a fluffy compost when ...

“Peat soils have a unique ability to block this type of naturally occurring radiation, drastically reducing the number of gamma rays detected by the sensor mounted on the Tellus aircraft when ...

Now, when I hear about vast peatlands, I think about the potential to make great whisky or buttress our exports (Canada, it turns out, is the world’s largest exporter of peat). But when Liberals ...