{"title":"Kate Collyns","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKate Collyns\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful and practical guidance for anyone interested in gardening and cultivating their own green space. Her works blend hands-on advice with thoughtful reflection, making the world of home-grown produce accessible and engaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom practical manuals like \u003cem\u003eHow to Start a Market Garden\u003c\/em\u003e to more contemplative titles such as \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy for Gardeners\u003c\/em\u003e, Collyns’ books invite readers to explore gardening not only as a skill but as a way of connecting with nature and community.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"how-to-start-a-market-garden-by-kate-collyns-9781399422802","title":"How to Start a Market Garden","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow to Start a Market Garden\u003c\/em\u003e offers all you need to know about starting a successful, sustainable business growing fresh produce.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMore and more people are discovering the rewards of growing their own food, and there's plenty of advice on methods of growing. But what about producing larger quantities to sell? Or even making a living from horticulture? And how do you grow organic produce on this scale?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book covers everything you need when starting out; from finding land to grow on and sourcing the finance to get going, to winning customers and marketing your produce, working on your business plan, deciding which crops to grow, and demystifying legal considerations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith an extensive directory of invaluable contacts and resources and a market gardening calendar, this friendly guide is packed with reassuring, first-hand advice and beautiful photographs and illustrations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhether you’ve got surplus produce from a vegetable garden, are starting a community project, or looking to sell to wholesale from a fully-developed business, this is the perfect guide for anyone interested in selling produce for profit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47496056930540,"sku":"9781399422802","price":44.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399422802-how-to-start-a-market-garden.jpg?v=1775795995"},{"product_id":"philosophy-for-gardeners-by-kate-collyns-9780711268210","title":"Philosophy for Gardeners","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExplore ideas, consider the big questions and learn life lessons in your garden. Gardening is an innately thoughtful as well as practical pastime: planning ahead, imagining how plants will grow, deciding what will make a good garden, wondering at the beauty of flowers and noticing how ecosystems work. This delightful and engaging collection of essays illustrates how many philosophical ideas arise naturally in gardeners' everyday work. Growers by their nature are in fact already philosophers:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eexistentialists who try to live and work by their own rules in a garden;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003estoics who put up with slug damage again and again, and try to work in harmony with nature;\u003c\/li\u003e\n    \u003cli\u003eand practical quantum scientists who witness incredible processes going on in plant cells beneath the ground.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy for Gardeners,\u003c\/i\u003e Kate Collyns uses aspects of gardening to introduce and explore a range of philosophical ideas and schools of thought; cultivating a greater understanding and appreciation of intriguing concepts, propagated from science, evolution and aesthetics through to politics, economics and ethics. Broken into four sections, Soil, Growth, Harvest and Cycles, each section explores questions of philosophy through the lens of the garden. A fascinating read, this book is as perfect for students of philosophy as it is for gardeners, filled with thought-provoking reflections on life, being and existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647706382572,"sku":"9780711268210","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c43c72da8348c01dbd18e8ab9f225a16.jpg?v=1779232590"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/kate-collyns.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}