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Nature's Acre: An Irish Garden Memoir of Making a Place Where Life Grows

Nature's Acre: An Irish Garden Memoir of Making a Place Where Life Grows - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ciaran de Buitlear, Cynthia S. ReyesPublish date:12/10/2025Pages:106
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Ciaran de BuitlearISBN-13:9781919392813ISBN-10:1919392815UPC:9781919392813Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, GardeningBook Subcategory:Organic, CompostingSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SCHHDVG8QM

It's spring 2020 in a small Irish town. Ciarán is reading in the greenhouse when the phone rings.
What follows will change his life, his family, and the patch of ground he thought he understood.

This isn't a step-by-step gardening manual. It's an Irish garden memoir, the story of an ordinary one-acre garden that becomes a refuge, for wildlife, for neighbours, and for a mind that has never quite managed to feel at home in the world.

As lockdown closes in, Ciarán throws himself into the work: leaving corners wild, growing food without chemicals, building habitats instead of tidy borders. Along the way he starts to unpick years of exhaustion, anxiety, and not fitting in, and to ask what it means to live well on a damaged planet.

Caring changes us.
We find meaning in doing.
Collaboration gives us place.Who it's for
  • Gardeners curious about wildlife-friendly, chemical-free growing
  • Readers who enjoy nature writing and memoir
  • Anyone drawn to Ireland, lockdown-era stories, and community change

Nature's Acre is part wildlife-garden diary, part community story, part attempt to steady a nervous system with soil under the fingernails. It's for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the world, and wonders if there might be another way to live in it.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Ciaran de BuitlearISBN-13:9781919392813ISBN-10:1919392815UPC:9781919392813Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, GardeningBook Subcategory:Organic, CompostingSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.22 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SCHHDVG8QM
Reyes, Cynthia S.: - "Cynthia is an editor and coach of memoir writers. She has published books for adults about unusual homes, the people who love them, and the life events connected to these places. She has written three such books so far: the bestselling A Good Home, An Honest House, winner of the Diamond Award for Book of the Year (2016), and, released in 2019, Twigs in my Hair - A Gardening Memoir."de Buitlear, Ciaran: - Ciarán De Buitlear is an Irish writer and wildlife gardener based in County Meath. He founded GardeningWell, an initiative focused on wildlife gardening and climate action, and has helped distribute native trees across Ireland through his work with FreeTrees Ireland. By day he works as a database specialist; outside work he has spent decades developing gardens that prioritise habitat, biodiversity, and chemical-free growing. Nature's Acre is his first book-part wildlife-garden diary, part community story, and part search for steadiness in a changing world.
Publisher: Ciaran de Buitlear

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