Organised by the Beth Chatto Education Trust, Rewilding the Mind – The Beth Chatto Symposium 2022 is taking place at The Ivor Crewe Lecture Hall, University of Essex’s Colchester Campus, from September 1-2, 2022. It offers a mix of lectures, discussion panels and an opportunity to meet other professionals. Accommodation is also available at the university halls at an affordable price.
Four hundred tickets for this much-anticipated event have already been snapped up – with only 100 spaces remaining.
The latest guests to join the list of high-profile speakers and/or panellists at the Symposium are Richard Scott – director of the National Wildflower Centre at the Eden Project, Poppy Okotcha – trained horticulturalist and regenerative grower, and Sid Hill of Sid Hill Ecological Gardens.
Also speaking at the Symposium, which is hosted by garden designer and television presenter Arit Anderson, are the esteemed Errol Reuben Fernandes, Sarah Price, Professor Dave Goulson, Professor Alastair Driver, Dan Pearson OBE, Fergus Garrett, Tom Stuart-Smith, Giacamo Guzzon, Dr Sue Stuart-Smith, Dr Mike Edwards, Dr Gemma Jerome, John Little, Dr Wei Yang, Jo McKerr and Ton Muller.
Furthermore, landscape designer Adam Hunt, of Urquhart & Hunt, is now a panellist at this two-day event. Urquhart & Hunt’s A Rewilding Britain Landscape, which used native plants to showcase a rewilded landscape after the reintroduction of beavers in southwest England, won the coveted Best in Show prize at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show.