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Every manicured lawn is an act of war on nature.

We call it tidy. Nature calls it ecocide.

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The Global War on Mess: How We’re Mowing Nature to Death | Gardeningwell
Short lawns. Clipped hedges. Sprayed edges. We call it ‘tidy.’ Nature calls it war!
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October 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Yes we are the same GardeningWell from “the bad place” and elsewhere. We are following a lot of people (most are followers from there).
🌱🌎 #Ireland
Follow us for family friendly sustainable gardening, eco friendly, climate action, grow your own, composting, trees.
December 8, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Us on TV talking about gardening’s positive impact on physical and mental health. What do you think? 🌱🌎🦋
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GardeningWell on Nationwide: gardening for health, for kids.
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March 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Please repost, follow to help us spread the word about Wildlife gardening, biodiversity & climate action 🌍🌱
Zack displays 2 raised beds he made from reclaimed scaffold boards. Hedgehog in the wildlife garden. Tasty tomatoes! Gardeningwell team with new planters we helped organize in Stamullen central.
September 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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🌎 Do you want to help wildlife where you live?

🦋 Get the free Irish Wildlife Garden Starter Kit — simple steps to grow for bees, birds & wildflowers.

🌱 Sign up & join a community of people gardening for nature in Ireland.
👉 gardeningwell.ie/guide

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Sunflower with a butterfly. Wildlife in our garden!
November 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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We began filming in lockdown — just me and my sons, Sam & Zack — to help people grow something good. 🌱
It became Gardeningwell: our family garden in Co. Meath, sharing ways to garden for wildlife and hope.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Everyone’s tidying up for winter — but your “mess” might be saving wildlife.

Leaf piles + log piles = shelter for hedgehogs, frogs, insects. More on the website. 👇
Https://gardeningwell.ie/gardens-as-biodiversity-engines

#WildlifeGardening #Biodiversity #QuietActivism #GardeningWell
Sunset at the community garden. the sun sets over the wildlife pond!
October 25, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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If you’re on Substack, you might consider subscribing. I have started putting essays and thoughts on there that are too long for Bluesky.

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Essays about gardens, children, community, nature and the places that change us. Media: gardeningwell.ie/press/media
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June 5, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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We talked on @rte.ie (national TV in #Ireland) about #gardening for physical and mental health for all ages. youtu.be/Jw3VlkosO-o?...
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December 9, 2024 at 8:49 PM
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New video: Where to put a hedgehog house — filmed at the Stamullen Community Garden.
A quick guide to giving hedgehogs a safe, shaded place to nest.
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Where to Put a Hedgehog House
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October 21, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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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?

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Listen to the Land
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August 1, 2026 at 12:51 PM
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If you like gardeningWell, you’ll love FreeTrees.

Because who doesn’t want free native Irish trees?
🌲 🌱🦋

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Zack holds a bundle of native Irish trees as he prepares them for free distribution to people in the local area. Zack is only one of hundreds of volunteers who organize 3 to 3 distribution for freetrees.ie.
October 15, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Still feels odd saying this, but yes: I wrote a book, and I’d love people to read it.
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March 6, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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World Book Day feels like the one day I’m allowed to say this without shame:

Buy my book. 🙈📚
Nature’s Acre — Irish garden memoir, wildlife-friendly, heart-first.

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Nature’s Acre
Nature’s Acre is an Irish wildlife‑gardening memoir by Ciarán De Buitléar — a story of recovery, community, and learning to live with nature. Read excerpts, praise, and order the book at GardeningWell
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March 5, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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GardeningWell on Nationwide (Irish national TV) : gardening for health, for kids. youtu.be/Jw3VlkosO-o?...
GardeningWell on Nationwide: gardening for health, for kids.
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November 16, 2024 at 5:39 PM
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Every native plant is a little act of climate resilience.
Irish growers are quietly restoring biodiversity one seed tray at a time — and we can support them.
Choosing native means choosing balance. 🌱

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#Biodiversity #WildlifeGardening #Gardeningwell
Irish native plant suppliers - hedgerow heroes - Where to Buy Genuine Irish Trees and Wild Plants | Gardeningwell.ie
Where to find real native Irish plants and trees — not imports. Proven growers who protect Ireland’s biodiversity and hedgerow heritage.
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October 30, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Engagement is off the scale compared to the “bad place” with around 1000 times less followers. Bluesky is home now for GardeningWell:
Gardening for physical and mental wellness building community and maybe just saving the world as well.
November 17, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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Gods I love a bit of knapweed, and these pics show why.

Also, I've started Ciarán's book "Nature's Acre" about tending to a neglected walled garden during lockdown, and it is one of the most quietly beautiful, steadying, and joyous things I've read in a long old time.

Warmly recommended:
October 2, 2026 at 7:49 AM
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My new book Nature’s Acre — about wildlife gardening, community and biodiversity in Ireland — launches next week at Sonairte, the National Ecology Centre.
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Nature’s Acre
Nature’s Acre is an Irish wildlife‑gardening memoir by Ciarán De Buitléar — a story of recovery, community, and learning to live with nature. Read excerpts, praise, and order the book at GardeningWell
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March 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Slow motion of sunflower seeds falling — tiny bursts of sound as they hit the table.

Just a whimsical reminder that gardening is meant to be fun — and even the quiet moments can feel full of life.

#Gardening #IrishGardening #Seeds #WildlifeGardening #GrowItAnyway #Gardeningwell
Satisfying sunflower seeds falling 🌻 #ASMR #Shorts
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October 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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if you’re curious about Nature’s Acre, there’s more about the book here:

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Nature’s Acre
Nature’s Acre is an Irish wildlife‑gardening memoir by Ciarán De Buitléar — a story of recovery, community, and learning to live with nature. Read excerpts, praise, and order the book at GardeningWell
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September 20, 2026 at 10:32 AM
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Father’s Day is coming.

If your dad has ever:

• disappeared into a greenhouse for “five minutes”
• pointed at a bird nobody else could see
• built something out of pallets
• said “that’s not a weed”

Then he’s probably one of us.

🌻 Nature’s Acre
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Nature’s Acre
Nature’s Acre is an Irish wildlife‑gardening memoir by Ciarán De Buitléar — a story of recovery, community, and learning to live with nature. Read excerpts, praise, and order the book at GardeningWell
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June 11, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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A small garden in Stamullen began to travel.

Nature’s Acre, GardeningWell, schools, communities—and now Harrowsmith’s 50th anniversary edition in Canada.

My new piece for Happy Eco News:
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When a Small Garden Starts to Travel | Happy Eco News
A neglected Victorian walled garden in rural Ireland became a wildlife haven—and the ideas behind it are now spreading to schools, community groups, and readers across the world.
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September 2, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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The call led to a Victorian walled garden hidden behind a wall I had passed hundreds of times without ever knowing what was there.

The story eventually became Nature’s Acre.

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Nature’s Acre
Nature’s Acre is an Irish wildlife‑gardening memoir by Ciarán De Buitléar — a story of recovery, community, and learning to live with nature. Read excerpts, praise, and order the book at GardeningWell
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June 2, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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“What did you do about it?”

A question from my son changed the direction of my life.

GardeningWell, the walled garden, community, nature, autism — and eventually Nature’s Acre — all grew from there.

Thanks to Emma Jane Cooke and RSVP Live for telling the story.

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Irish gardening expert Ciarán De Buitléar on his work life balance as an IT worker
Ciarán De Buitléar is an IT worker, but when he's not in work, he's a gardening expert at the helm of his community initiative the Gardening Well - He tells us about how he balances the two
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September 19, 2026 at 5:24 PM