{"title":"Rowan Reid","description":"\u003cp\u003eRowan Reid’s works delve into the intricate beauty of the natural world, blending keen scientific insight with a storyteller’s eye. Readers can expect evocative reflections on ecology and the changing environments that shape our planet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a focus on themes of conservation and the rhythms of nature, Reid’s writing invites a thoughtful exploration of our place within the living landscape, capturing both wonder and urgency in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"heartwood-by-rowan-reid-9781925556117","title":"Heartwood","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHeartwood\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the entrenched view that when it comes to forests, one is either a conservationist or a profiteer. Forest scientist Rowan Reid draws on over twenty years of experience and study to offer a third way: where growing trees for profit can have a positive environmental impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe challenges the ideological poles that dominate the debate and offers a scientific view on how anyone with the necessary land and time can grow their own trees and profit from them while improving the soil, water, and ecosystem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRowan also shares the personal story and family history that led him to his revolutionary new approach. He shares his passion for native trees and provides the practical information that readers will need to understand and grow trees of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46342631653612,"sku":"9781925556117","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15886503482873.jpg?v=1743926723"},{"product_id":"heartwood-by-rowan-reid-9781922779670","title":"Heartwood","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy do we assume trees can only be grown for either conservation or profit, but never both?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if there was a way that landholders could profit from harvesting timber from the trees they plant for stock shelter, biodiversity, soil erosion control, and beautification—whilst also helping control climate change?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlmost ten years since the initial publication of \u003cem\u003eHeartwood\u003c\/em\u003e, Rowan Reid returns to the fundamental challenge at the centre of his work—why must profit and conservation be at opposite ends of the forestry spectrum? In this new, updated and revised edition, Reid proposes a radical new approach to forestry and Landcare that challenges the idea that harvesting trees for timber is always bad for the environment. In fact, using real examples from his own farm and others around Australia and overseas, he proves that cutting down trees for firewood, furniture, and building timbers can not only be good for the environment, but can also help pay the cost of large-scale landscape restoration. This book offers landholders, governments, and the conservation movement a practical commercial solution to their environmental problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Threats to our forest, our home, and possibly my own legacy, remain,' Reid writes. 'Fortunately, time, so often the enemy of life, enhances both forests and families.' In 2026, after almost ten years of increased climate catastrophe, extreme weather events, and devastating fires, he writes—'I hope our trees ... will provide some meaning and purpose to the lives of our grandchildren, if only as a refuge, a home, or a family story to which they can always return.'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47486103355628,"sku":"9781922779670","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781922779670-heartwood.jpg?v=1775728084"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/rowan-reid.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}