The second full day of our visit to #BannauBrycheiniog was devoted to visiting #PenYFan, the tallest #peak in south #Wales. This was a very nice #walk of 15 km with some steep ascents and descents but no climbing.
Starting from the car park, a path started to climb gently upwards. You can see Pen Y Fan on the horizon near the centre of the image.
The path on the ridge is not dangerous unless you get carelessly close to the edge but it is uneven and has large stones in places whereas in others, it is covered in black #peat.
"Peat is a good storyteller. It preserves atmospheric fallout – pollen and spores, dust, volcanic ash, pollutants – and the larger remains of insects, plants (including tree roots, trunks and branches) and animals once living on or near the peatland."
I'm also replacing the fancy App Store images with a version that isn't that much worse and far easier to maintain and translate into different languages. The other ones where a pain in the ass to work with. #buildinpublic#peat
First up, a #NorthCarolina#Swamp is recovering from a recent fire, and local conservationists and experts are giving guided tours of the area to show how it's going.
Just opened the #Peat Figma file for the first time in months. This is it. There's nothing else there. It was literally completely designed in #SwiftUI.
On a related note, my little habit tracker app, Peat, will be released next week. Make sure to have a few habits ready that you want to build. #buildinpublic#peat
One of the things that has made me a devoted fan of #GardenersWorld (BBC and BritBox) is their dedication to getting gardeners off of peat as a growing medium. This week's show mentioning the upcoming ban on peat in English compost wasn't, I'm sure, meant as a victory lap, but they deserve one. They've done a lot to move that needle.
Companies, states, and the U.S. in general should be moving faster in this direction. No one needs to grow in peat.
I think the peat moss products that bug me most in the U.S. are the peat pots. They take a very good impulse - use less plastic in the garden - and use it to sell a carbon-intensive product. If you want to buy a natural, non-plastic pot (I'd argue that a sturdy, long-term reusable plastic one might be the best choice, but I understand), make sure to get one of the coconut fiber ones, not one made from millenia-old moss.