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How You Can Make a Difference and Help the Peat-Free Garden Campaign

By gardening without peat and following IPCC's peat-free plan below, the wild plants and animals that depend on the peat in the bogs can continue to survive.

Here's are some ways you can make a difference:

	Make a donation to support the IPCC's Peat-Free Garden Campaign - kicking the habit won't come cheap	Peat-Free Donation Form
	Buy only peat-free soil improvers, composts and mulches	Peat Free Compost Alternatives
	Go peat-free in your garden
	Recycle your garden and kitchen waste to make your own compost and persuade others to do the same	Learn how to make your own compost
	Do not buy plants grown in peat moss	Give me a garden center petition form
	Ask your local TD and the Ministers for Arts, Heritage Gaeltacht and the Islands to press for government action to protect raised bogs	Give me some pointers for the letter
	Ask your local TD and the Ministers for the Environment to enforce planning controls on companies currently extracting moss peat on conservation worthy raised bogs. Also ask that the Department of Environment do more to promote organic recycling at local level	Give me some pointers for the letter
	Ask your local County Council to declare itself a peat-free zone and to do more to encourage the composting of domestic and garden waste at a local level	Give me some pointers for the letter
	Ask your local garden center to stock peat-free alternatives	Give me a garden center petition form
	If you have a composting tip, or advice for gardeners who are trying to go peat-free - why not send it in to us by post or e-mail at garden ideas@ipcc.ie. The best will be posted to our Peat-free Garden Campaign Help Pages opposite.	Peat-free Garden Campaign Help Pages - for great peat free gardening and compost tips!

Thank you for your support - and remember every bag of peat-free coconut fibre, bark or composted waste material sold means that a bag of peat can stay where it belongs - in the bog!

You could also learn more about bogs and the issue of using peat in the garden. Check out some of the links below.

Find out more about raised bogs and why they are important

Peat Free Products - to buy or to make at home

Sign the Peatland Protection Charter

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