Presented by Brighton & Hove Food Partnership
The return of the beaver is one of Britain's most remarkable conservation stories. Derek Gow shares his first-hand experience of bringing beavers back to our rivers and reveals how they are transforming habitats and building resilience to climate change one dam at a time.
Derek Gow
Bringing back the Beaver is Farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow’s inspirational and often riotously funny first-hand account of how the movement to rewild beavers into the British landscape has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s, in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals, Gow has imported, quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland.
Alongside stories detailing the ups and downs of rewilding beavers, Bringing Back the Beaver makes a passionate case as to why the return of one of nature’s great problem solvers will be critical as part of a sustainable fix for the UK’s growing flooding problems, whilst ensuring the creation of essential landscapes that enable the broadest spectrum of Britain’s wildlife to thrive.
About Seedy Sunday
Kickstart the growing season at the city’s biggest gardening event - and the UK’s longest-running community seed swap.
At the heart of Seedy Sunday is a huge seed swap table where heritage & local seeds are donated and swapped. Everyone is welcome to bring seeds to swap, or make a small donation for a packet. A huge range of stallholders also offer seeds, gardening kit and much more for sale. Whether you have seeds to swap or not, Seedy Sunday is the perfect place to kick-off the growing season, getting seeds, materials & inspiration for the months ahead.
Entry to the event will be by donation on the day. Tickets for the event’s much-anticipated programme of talks will be on sale later this autumn.
Now in it's 20th year, Brighton and Hove Food Partnership are proud to organise Seedy Sunday. The Food Partnership was started by local residents in 2003, and the committed team of staff & volunteers deliver a range of food projects that have helped over 20,000 local people learn to cook, grow their own food, eat a healthier diet and waste less.
