Commons Stories
Commons Stories is a collection of stories from four upland common regions across England: Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales, the Lake District and the Shropshire Hills.
You’ll find written and photographic portraits of people, short videos, audio clips, and reflections on events through the year, as well as reflections on some of the challenges of building sustainable futures for people and landscape in these special places.
The collection is put together by somewhere nowhere duo, writer Harriet Fraser and photographer Rob Fraser, with contributions from commoners using GoPro cameras to capture snippets of their day-to-day lives on the farm and in the hills.
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Exhibition: Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes, Yorkshire
April 19 - September 8th, 2024
Looking after Peat on Grassington Common
Peat is precious, for biodiversity, for storing huge amounts of carbon, and to mitigate against flooding. But it’s degraded across many areas of England. Manon Pue from Yorkshire Peat Partnership tells us more about peat on Grassington Moor, and putting together a restoration plan.