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

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Every book needs a champion. When a distributor backs a book, they’re saying good books still matter. Thank you, Central Books, for choosing to back Nature’s Acre. In publishing, human judgement still matters. www.centralbooks.com/nature-s-acr...

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

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Beauty and the beast at the community garden today. 🍎🖤 The apple was easy to admire. The mystery insect made me stop and look a little closer.

Together, these pieces are part of Listen to the Land. gardeningwell.ie/listen-to-th... What is one thing in your garden that you now leave alone, but once would have cut, pulled up or cleared away? A photograph would be even better.

Most gardening advice begins by telling us what to change. Listen to the Land begins with what is already there. Three essays are now live: plants that thrive, wildlife gardens that need less work, and the plants we keep pulling up. gardeningwell.ie/listen-to-th...

Flowers and salamanders and bats, oh my! Second annual lab ‘blitz the gap’ camping trip (in the rain, again 🤷🏻‍♀️). Lots of fun critters despite the weather! Thanks @qcbs.ca 💰

Thank you to Wildacres Nature Reserve for sharing Nature’s Acre. It means a great deal when people working to restore nature connect with the book’s message. 💚

In a suburb where half the gardens are now car parks, I'm holding on. I think this will be a burnet moth, as I seem to have gained a small population. Six years after sewing seeds, I've counted over 30 kinds of wildflower, several kinds of butterfly/moth, various bees, beetles, and dragonfly.

By training gardeners to work in more creative, ecological and biodiverse ways, we make green spaces more engaging, more inclusive, and more valuable to their communities www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

‘If a space is cared for, everything improves’: Meet four gardeners transforming their urban communities

From improving biodiversity to managing antisocial behaviour, the benefits of greening towns and cities are massive. These names are leading the charge…

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Can a wildlife garden actually be easier to look after? I’m exploring that idea in a new Gardeningwell series called Listen to the Land. This is the first draft, and I’d really appreciate honest feedback. What questions should this series answer? gardeningwell.ie/listen-to-th...

You have two from four native plants there I think: Heather top left, top right is hydrangea introduced, bottom left crocosmia introduced, bottom right clover native.

Can a wildlife garden actually be easier to look after? I’m exploring that idea in a new Gardeningwell series called Listen to the Land. This is the first draft, and I’d really appreciate honest feedback. What questions should this series answer? gardeningwell.ie/listen-to-th...

We keep telling people to save nature. I think we’ve got it backwards. People don’t protect what they’ve been told is important. They protect what they’ve learned to notice. That’s why one ordinary garden can change a life.

The way we stop upland fires is dramatic rewetting and rewilding of our hills and reducing emissions like it's a life or death situation... Using every lever available to the state domestically and internationally to immediately cut emissions everywhere. It's literally the only way we can stop them

We keep telling people to save nature. I think we’ve got it backwards. People don’t protect what they’ve been told is important. They protect what they’ve learned to notice. That’s why one ordinary garden can change a life.

Just 6 or 7 years ago, this was a clear-felled Sitka plantation. NONE of these native trees were planted, they all self-seeded. And, in contrast to Sitka, this is a natural ecosystem that WON'T burn, and WILL be fantastic habitat for 1,000s of native species. Nature knows what to do, if we let it.

I have an article in the 50th Anniversary Almanac edition of Harrowsmith (pages 228–231). I’ve heard it’s started arriving with subscribers, but I still haven’t seen a copy myself! If yours has arrived, could you do me a favour and post or DM me a photo of those pages? I’d really appreciate it. 😊

I have an article in the 50th Anniversary Almanac edition of Harrowsmith (pages 228–231). I’ve heard it’s started arriving with subscribers, but I still haven’t seen a copy myself! If yours has arrived, could you do me a favour and post or DM me a photo of those pages? I’d really appreciate it. 😊

A big step for Nature’s Acre today: stock has arrived safely at Central Books, my UK and Ireland distributor. This should make it much easier for independent bookshops to order through their normal trade channels. Seeing the boxes actually in the warehouse makes it feel very real.

I never thought I would say this is an Irish person: “rain glorious rain!”

The cloths of heaven!

The cloths of heaven!

This is our pest control!

…but the cost of net zero…

Very important to make sure there’s a way for creatures to get out of any pond you make. We had just filled this pond when we found and rescued this guy who couldn’t get out (yes frogs can drown). We quickly made a ramp for creatures to get out.

This summer has made it abundantly clear that we need rewetting across all landscapes, varied habitats, firebreaks and a recalibration of what we use water for, and in ireland, a massive growth and restoration of our degraded ecosystems like bog and wet woodlands that are naturally fire resistant

Well this is mad altogether. Nature’s Acre has somehow wandered onto the shelves of McLean & Eakin, the best indie bookstore in Michigan. Turns out the movement has legs. Small actions, long journeys. mcleanandeakin.com/book/9781919...

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

It's spring 2020 in a small Irish town. Ciar n 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 i...

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Well this is mad altogether. Nature’s Acre has somehow wandered onto the shelves of McLean & Eakin, the best indie bookstore in Michigan. Turns out the movement has legs. Small actions, long journeys. mcleanandeakin.com/book/9781919...

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

It's spring 2020 in a small Irish town. Ciar n 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 i...

mcleanandeakin.com

If this government does not reverse its position on climate action, i.e. to do nothing , they will never get my vote again! Who is with me?

John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · 2w ago

Astonishing attack on civil society and environmental justice by a government lacking either vision or basic competence. www.thejournal.ie/jack-chamber...

Teasel what a great plant. The bee agrees.