Eco campaigner Brigit Strawbridge brings Big Green Bus to Spring Show (From Malvern Gazette)

Eco campaigner Brigit Strawbridge brings Big Green Bus to Spring Show

2:30pm Monday 19th April 2010

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WELL-known eco-campaigner Brigit Strawbridge will be joined by a whole host of familiar faces at this year’s Spring Gardening Show at the Three Counties Showground.

Brigit, host of BBC Two’s It’s Not Easy Being Green, will be heading to this year’s event in her Big Green Bus to set up camp in the show’s Eco Home and Garden area.

The show, running from May 6-9, is one of the largest on the horticultural calendar and consistently attracts tens of thousands of visitors to Malvern each year.

Also hopping aboard Brigit’s bus will be James Strawbridge, another contributor to the BBC Two show, who will let visitors get ‘down and dirty’ with a composting workshop.

The Moneyless Man, Mark Boyle, who is famous for living without cash and a regular contributor to the Guardian newspaper, will be joining the bus on Friday, May 7 to talk about his new book.

Author Rachel Corby will be available to sign copies of her new book, The Medicine Garden, which explains how natural remedies from the garden can be used for healing.

Other workshops and talks running over the course of the show will include; natural skin care; solitary bees; wildlife gardening; healing with herbs and composting and wormeries.

A full list of talks and workshops will be available from the Big Green Bus each day.

The Big Green Idea, a charity headed by Brigit which seeks to raise awareness of green issues, is based at the Fold, in Bransford, where courses are run throughout the year.

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