Sunday 22 May 2022, 3pm & 4.30pm
Love bugs and want to help them? Don’t really love bugs but know they are important? Either way you can join in a free drop-in session with author and environmental campaigner Vicki Hird and learn about the extraordinary wildlife all around you, and why and how we can help them to help us. From the pollinating bees, wasps and flies, to the soil creating worms and from the aphid eating beetles to the water filtering nematodes – they all matter and are all under threat from pollution and other harms. Rebugging can be very easy to do and can be about your garden and green spaces, what you eat and wear and what you do as a citizen – and it really can be quick and easy. And we need everyone to do a bit to help the bugs which are a critical part of the natural systems we love and depend on for everything really.
Vicki Hird MSc FRES is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and an award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working mainly on food, farming and environmental issues and solutions. Vicki’s other passion is insects and other invertebrates. She has a Masters in Pest Management and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES). She is the author of “Rebugging the Planet – The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – and Why we need to love them more“, published September 2021 by Chelsea Green Publishing.
Vicki Hird MSc FRES is Head of the Sustainable Farming Campaign for Sustain: The Alliance for Better Food and Farming and an award-winning environmental campaigner, researcher, writer and strategist working mainly on food, farming and environmental issues and solutions. Vicki’s other passion is insects and other invertebrates. She has a Masters in Pest Management and is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society (FRES). She is the author of “Rebugging the Planet – The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – and Why we need to love them more“, published September 2021 by Chelsea Green Publishing.
‘Rebugging the Planet’ at the Curve Garden is aimed at adults and older children. There will also be a ‘Beautiful Bugs & Marvellous Minibeasts’ drop in puppet-making session for younger children and their adult carers, taking place on the same afternoon. There’s no need to book but places are limited so we recommend you arrive early to avoid disappointment.
