For Peat's Sake campaign

Peat bogs are a key habitat and carbon store which is being irreversibly destroyed. Peat is stripped from bogs, packaged into plastic sacks and used for compost in our gardens and pot plants.

Peat-free compost exists and doesn’t damage fragile and rare peat bog ecosystems. Our mission is to make peat-free compost easily available in your local shops so that gardening at home can be more sustainable.

We aim to do this in two main ways:

1. Challenge and invite stores to go peat-free 

We need to encourage every store which stocks plants and compost to become a peat-free organisation. This includes garden centres, supermarkets, DIY stores and independent stores. We've drafted social media posts and letters that you can send to your local stockist. 

2. Celebrate peat-free stores 
We're building an interactive map of peat-free stores, where you can find stockists of peat-free plants and composts. This Google Map can be embedded into your own website or blog.

Help build the peat-free map by finding out if your local store is a peat-free organisation, and if they're not, why not challenge them? We've created a downloadable poster and social media post to celebrate those acting responsibility and going peat-free.


The idea for this blog was started by two friends, Jazz and Lucie, who saw an opportunity to try and make a little difference to help wildlife and keep some carbon in the ground. Jazz now works on this during her daily commute to work.