Field of Dreams: How We Transformed a Rural Desert into a Thriving Wildlife Garden - Couverture souple

Salisbury, Bob

 
9781780731728: Field of Dreams: How We Transformed a Rural Desert into a Thriving Wildlife Garden
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1780731728 ISBN 13 : 9781780731728
Editeur : Blackstaff Press Ltd, 2018

Synopsis

Included in The Sunday Times selection of great Christmas reads for gardeners - 'heart-warming, entertaining - and muck-filled - story (Jane Powers, The Sunday Times)

Sir Bob and Lady Rosemary Salisbury's Field of Dreams project, recent winner of the Environmental Initiative of the Year category, at the Sustainable Ireland Awards.

When Bob Salisbury and his wife Rosemary were nearing retirement, they moved back to County Tyrone from Nottinghamshire, bought a fifteen-acre site and started to build a house. `It was when we first spent time on the land we now owned that Rosemary asked whether I noticed anything odd. Eventually I gave up. "There is no birdsong," she said. "In terms of wildlife this land is barren." She was absolutely right.' This is the inspiring story of how the Salisburys - both enthusiastic but amateur gardeners - transformed an unloved rural wasteland into a thriving, renowned wildlife garden - home to lapwings, hares, yellowhammers, otters, woodcocks, bats and many other species that hadn't been seen in the area for years. 'The Field of Dreams' celebrates the Irish countryside and its wildlife with great warmth, humour and lightness of touch - and is a book that reminds us of the profound importance of maintaining a connection to the land.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sir Robert Salisbury is a leading educationalist, who recently chaired the literacy and numeracy task force in Northern Ireland. Previously he was a professor in the School of Education at the University of Nottingham. He is a keen angler, photographer and garden. Bob and his wife Rosemary have spent the last sixteen years developing one of Ireland's most significant wildlife gardens.

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Éditeur
Blackstaff Press Ltd
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1780731728
ISBN 13 
9781780731728
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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Personne responsable
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