Please join the Orcas Island Garden Club on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 when we welcome independent entomologist Cynthia Brast-Bormann with her presentation about turning your Curiosity into Conservation! Advocating for bugs in our yards, gardens, and beyond. Inspired by Joni Mitchell’s Edenesque imagery in the song Woodstock, her talk will be about appreciating nature’s diversity in our gardens. Let’s invite these cast-out critters back in.
Instead of categorizing them as “friend” or “foe,” we can sow seeds of curiosity, allowing our understanding of natural processes to bloom, learning more about bugs, how they live, what they do, and even identify what eats them.
Perhaps most importantly, we can appreciate bugs and advocate to conserve them. Cynthia will share ways to enhance the overall ecological health of your garden or orchard by inviting those bugs back, appreciating the ones that nibble at your garden plants, and how nature is your best garden helper of all!
Cynthia is an independent entomologist with a MS in entomology and nematology who is passionate about the conservation of insects and spiders. Using macro photography, artistic drawing, and writing to feature the uniqueness and value of insects in our wild, domestic, aquatic, and agricultural habitats, she endeavors to inspire curiosity to engage others in learning more about the role of insects and spiders in these ecosystems.
Cynthia lives on San Juan Island with her husband, Lincoln, her kitties, Herman and Nimbus, one bearded dragon, Drago, and her pet spiders, Elvira and Wish.
The live presentation will begin at 10 am at the Orcas Center and will be followed by social time. The presentation will also be available via zoom. For a link to the live zoom
presentation, go to the Orcas Island Garden Club website and click the link below the
list of presentations. The presentation will be recorded and will be posted on our website. To watch the recorded presentation, go to the link ‘Recorded
Presentations’ under Resources on the club website.
Garden Club presentations are free and open to the public.
