Five Acre Forest

Trish Nicholson returned to her Celtic roots and planted a thousand trees to transform an eroded dune into a five-acre forest in New Zealand's far north. Twenty years on, she shares the physical and emotional trials and triumphs of the project, as well as the deep-time story of the extraordinary landscape.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2021
Publisher: Troubador Publishing

Planting a tree is an act of faith, an expression of hope. The Five Acre Forest inspires that hope. In transit from the globe-trotting life of an aid worker, Trish Nicholson came upon an eroded dune beside a lake in New Zealand's far north and felt a strange attachment. The following year, she abandoned her Celtic roots and returned to plant a thousand trees.

Twenty years on, the author shares the physical and emotional trials and triumphs of transforming the dune into a five-acre forest, and describes the lives of its native trees, birds, and insects, enchanting us with local legends and her nature photography along the way. Woven into Nicholsons personal narrative is the deep-time story of an extraordinary landscape of dunes, lakes, swamps, and beaches formed from an ancient shared geological ancestry. Heel-on-spade nature writing that is also lyrical, passionate, and full of wonder.

Weight: 288g
Dimension: 127 x 203 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781800464872