Nature's Acre

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ISBN: 9781919392813

An Irish Garden Memoir of Making a Place Where Life Grows

Ciaran De Buitlear

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English

Ciaran De Buitlear
10 December 2025

Memoirs; Organic gardening; Wildlife: general interest; Trees, wildflowers & plants

It's spring 2020 in a small Irish town. Ciaran 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, Ciaran 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.

By: Ciaran De Buitlear
Imprint: Ciaran De Buitlear
Country of Publication: Ireland
ISBN: 9781919392813
ISBN 10: 1919392815
Publication Date: 10 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ciaran 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. 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.

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

""a family discovers the magical world of an old Victorian walled garden. Gardeners will love this book."" - Temple Grandin, Author: Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People who Think In Pictures, Patterns and Distractions ""Ciaran has a gentle and sensitive approach to gardening with nature in mind, leaving wild space for our shared kin, and growing chemical-free food and native plants. It is the future of landscape design."" - Mary Reynolds, author, designer and founder of We Are The ARK - Acts of Restorative Kindness to the Earth ""Ciaran has always strived to bring gardening to the people, and people to the garden. His passion for community gardens, space for nature and challenging conventional thinking is a breath of fresh air."" - Darragh McCullough, Elmgrove Farm and Garden Centre ""I would highly recommend Nature's Acre... It resonated with my experience of communities coming together to preserve nature and build connection."" - Brian Gormley, Head of Sustainability Education, TU Dublin