{"title":"Books","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"homegrown","title":"Homegrown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHomegrown\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the inspiring story of how Donegal grower Barrie Quinn transformed a neglected family field into Portnoo Market Garden – a thriving, small-scale haven that produces exceptional quality fruits and vegetables using natural, sustainable and chemical-free methods. Alongside his personal story, Barrie offers an accessible guide to growing your own food the regenerative way, no matter the size of your space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBarrie's message is clear: healthy soil is essential to create healthy people, and reconnecting with where our food comes from is one of the most important steps we can take for our health, the planet and our communities. 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He dropped out of Cambridge University to hitchhike to Istanbul and bicycle through India. Simon established a commune in France, was arrested multiple times for squatting and civil disobedience, and became a leading figure in protests against the British government’s road building programmes of the 1980s and – later – in legislative battles to help people secure access to land for low impact, sustainable living. Over the course of fifty years, we witness a man’s drive for self-sufficiency, freedom, authenticity and a deep connection to the land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"\u003eSimon Fairlie grew up in a middle-class household in leafy middle England. His path had been laid out for him by his father: boarding school, Oxbridge and a career in journalism. But everything changed when Simon’s life ran headfirst into London’s counterculture in the 1960s. He finds Beat poetry, blues music, cannabis and anti–Vietnam War protests – and a powerful lust to be free. Instead of becoming a celebrated Fleet Street journalist like his father, Simon becomes a labourer, a stonemason, a farmer, a scythesman, a magazine editor and a writer of a very different sort. He shares the highs of his experience, alongside the painful costs of his ongoing search for freedom – estrangement from his family, financial insecurity and the loss of friends and lovers to the excesses of the 1960s, 70s, and 80s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGoing to Seed \u003c\/em\u003equestions the current trajectory of Western ‘progress’ – explosive consumerism, growing inequality and environmental devastation; it’s for anyone who wonders how we got to such a place. 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Angela Carter remarked that it was less a cookery book that a summing-up of the genre of the late-modern British cookery book. The work has attracted a cult following in the United States, where passages have been read out at great length on the radio; and it has been anthologized by Paul Levy in The Penguin Book of Food and Drink. It was given a special award by the André Simon Book Prize committee in 1987. The author, Patience Gray, for 20 years shared her life with a sculptor, whose appetite for marble and sedimentary rocks took them to Tuscany, Catalonia, Naxos and Apulia. 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Explore colourful varieties from around the world, discover the author's six ‘must grow’ beans, and learn which are best enjoyed fresh and which to dry for the kitchen cupboard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn inspiring read for anyone keen to grow more of their own food and bring home-grown beans to the table.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaperback, 160 pages, with colour photographs throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Organic Centre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65128409137529,"sku":null,"price":11.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0926\/0095\/9353\/files\/growingbeans_35bff5de-6071-48a9-8ce4-e6a2d388f09d.jpg?v=1793979884"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0926\/0095\/9353\/collections\/organicgardeningbeginnershandbookfadiayat.webp?v=1788257326","url":"https:\/\/shop.theorganiccentre.ie\/collections\/books.oembed","provider":"The Organic Centre","version":"1.0","type":"link"}