Nature's Acre
| By: | Ciaran De Buitlear |
| Publisher: | Ciaran De Buitlear |
| Published: | December 2025 |
| Pages: | 96 |
| Categories: | Autobiography, Non-Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Ebook |
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What it’s really about In a small town in Ireland, during lockdown, Spring 2020, Ciaran reads a book in the greenhouse. The phone rings. What follows will change his life, the life of his family, and his community. This is Ciaran's first book. It shows how ordinary gardening fits into the long Irish tradition of writing about nature, but in a way that anyone can enjoy and understand. His writing blends sustainable gardening with expressive storytelling and a wry sense of humour, drawing together plants, a sense of place, and a personal recovery. This memoir can be described as a cross between H is for Hawk, Braiding Sweetgrass, with a smidgen of Diary of a Young Naturalist: like H is for Hawk, it finds deep meaning in the natural world as a path to recovery; like Braiding Sweetgrass, it combines practical sustainability with expressive storytelling to frame gardens as places of grounding and belonging; like Diary of a Young Naturalist, it offers genuine, compelling advocacy for biodiversity rooted in the Irish landscape.