Under Summer Pastures

is a publication by Hometree the native woodland and land restoration charity of which I am founding director. It explores Ireland’s rare and ancient temperate rainforests, blending personal reflection by leading environmental thinkers. The book highlights the beauty of these woodlands and the urgent need for their conservation. It acts as a clarion call for the work that Hometree is doing in reestablishing the temperate rainforests along the Atlantic coast of Ireland. ~ Manchán Magan

We know that trees played a central role in our psychological make-up, our ceremonial rituals and native cures. We are fortunate to still have tracts of the indigenous rainforest that these trees developed in clinging on throughout the island. All of us should now be doing whatever we possibly can to safeguard them for the future, not only for ourselves, but for our ancestors, and the animals, insects and future of life on this planet.

Under Summer Pastures: explorations and essays from Ireland’s temperate rainforests.