‘In Moss and Moor’ receives support

How to Bury the Giant - In Moss and Moor is a new creative project that invites us all to celebrate and restore our carbon rich landscapes.

We are delighted that the Devon Environment Foundation and the Foundation for Common Land are supporting us to reach out to community groups, schools, commoners, landowners and other partners to help us find out ‘How to Bury the Giant’! Intrigued? Read on….

Devon Environment Foundation support grassroots projects that regenerate nature, especially those that can be replicated and scaled across the county.

Our Common Cause: Our Upland Commons is a landmark project (led by the Foundation for Common Land) that will conserve, enhance and broaden understanding of the cultural and natural heritage of commons and commoning in upland England.

During COP26, we displayed our artwork, Moths to a Flame, in Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens and had hundreds of visitors every day; they came for the plants and the art. They left feeling hopeful, refreshed and inspired.

People spoke about what was happening in the conference. They spoke about Carbon. Carbon trading, carbon calculators, carbon taxes, carbon off-setting. Carbon loomed large. It is the Giant of our times.  

In the Botanic Gardens, we were surrounded by plants and mosses that told another story. A story of carbon sequestration. A story of repair and restoration. A story where each tiny cell photosynthesises light and captures carbon, returning the giant to the earth, creating the environment for all of life to thrive.  

How to Bury the Giant - In Moss and Moor tells this story of repair and restoration. Each tiny action in a mosaic of moss, each tiny action in a mosaic of community, making a positive difference, burying the carbon giant.

Ourselves in miniature mossy worlds

In Glasgow Botanic gardens the mosses spoke to us.

In Moss and Moor will include exciting research, celebration and action. We hope to encourage people to look closely and get to know mosses and their ecosystems, try and grow sphagnum moss and plant it back, make felt from place specific Dartmoor fleeces and restore areas of peatland with the owners, farmers and commoners. Together we will all become carbon managers, keeping the Giant underground.