Thurs 15 May / Poppy Okotcha & Sophie Pavelle

Writing Nature is a series of events highlighting local/global writing on the natural world; our love for wild places, growing & eco systems, caring for land & sustainability, from Devon to the Amazon rainforest. For the second event in this delightful series, we have Poppy Okotcha and Sophie Pavelle talking to us about the symbiotic relationships in nature and the ones we weave with them.

In A Wilder Way, we join Poppy Okotcha in her wild little garden in Devon, where, over the course of a year, she shares the inspiring, the mundane and the magical moments that arise from tending a garden through the seasons, and what they can teach us about living more sustainably. Alongside tips for sowing and growing, wild ingredients to be found and delicious seasonal recipes to make, she shows us how the small joys of engaging with the natural world are imperative for our physical and emotional wellbeing. How the more we look at the world around us, the more we learn and the more we care.

Through To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships, Sophie Pavelle Investigates eight symbiotic relationships trying to survive the climate and biodiversity crises and explains why it is vital for us to understand symbiosis. Symbiotic relationships regulate ecosystems, strengthen resilience and bind pivotal connections. Species living together in symbiosis is no accident – these dynamics evolved. Species form and sever alliances everywhere, from deep within temperate rainforests to the open ocean, quiet tidal pools or chalk grasslands, and nature thrives on relationships as glamorous as they are grotesque and as bizarre as they are engrossing. In this book, Sophie relishes the interconnectedness between species and celebrates the relationships that underpin natural environments.

The evening will consist of a talk, audience Q&A as well as book signing at the end of the event.

The event will take place in McCoys Arcade on Fore Street from 7:00 - 8:30 pm.

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