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Beschreibung
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 [...] it's forGardeners 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.
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 [...] it's forGardeners 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.
Über den Autor
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Hobby & Freizeit
Thema: Garten & Natur
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781919392813
ISBN-10: 1919392815
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: de Buitlear, Ciaran
Redaktion: Reyes, Cynthia S
Hersteller: Ciaran De Buitlear
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 6 mm
Von/Mit: Ciaran de Buitlear
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.12.2025
Gewicht: 0,167 kg
Artikel-ID: 134650661

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