We all drink water! Our Land Flows, from Peat to Pipe, shares and celebrates the role of water in nature for both urban, rural and farming communities, speaking to its impact on health, habitats, and cultural heritage.
In 2026, Art and Energy were awarded a Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) grant from Dartmoor National Park, which explored our reliance on Dartmoor's varied landscape and habitats, from peat bogs and mires to the deep river valleys that flow with water in the natural and human formed infrastructure.
Dartmoor Preservation Association awarded Art and Energy an Access Grant towards this project for encouraging more people to help conserve this landscape heritage.
We invited communities from around Dartmoor and Plymouth to find out where the water from their tap comes from, exploring water from the peatlands of the high moors and how it becomes piped tap water to their homes. Our events celebrated the role of water in our cultural heritage, our habitats, and in resilience to climate change.
Our Land Flows also focused on the history and heritage of the leats that were constructed hundreds of years ago to transport water to and for the people of Plymouth and power the working mills.
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