Four hundred years ago, this land was under water: a vast expanse of swamp and marsh. From the 1650s, the Dutch engineer Cornelius Vermuyden started draining the Fens, and the black peaty soil that emerged from beneath the waters was a farmer’s dream, comprising 70% organic matter.

Feeding the nation while cutting carbon emissions is a challenge, but growers in Cambridgeshire and East Anglia are engineering a solution in the peaty soil.

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