D1: Carbon

Carbon (on three commons) will develop a Hill Farm Carbon Footprint Calculator to appraise how commoning and hill farming emits and sequesters carbon. Farmers will work together with Lancaster and Bangor Universities, to devise a system that records carbon use in the uplands and calculate their farms’ footprints to plan how they can come closer to being carbon neutral. It will allow farmers to promote the low carbon footprint of their lamb.

On the other side of the carbon equation the project (on four commons) will survey and restore peatlands, including trialling new farming-friendly methodologies and a series of farmer-led sessions to train other farmers in peat restoration techniques.