Kate Coughlan

• Editing a hardcover coffee-table book (on sale 15th October 2025, called RUSTIC NEW ZEALAND: Homes Inspired by Nature).
• Editing Nadia Lim's new cookbook Nadia's Farm Kitchen (on sale September 2025).
• Self-employed, running a magazine publishing business with a co-owner.
• Editing and creating content for various lifestyle magazines, including many directly involved with gardening.
• Worked with a small team (12 people) to produce quality lifestyle magazines to a high quality level.
• Worked across most facets of the business from my main role creating content to customer-facing subscription department (fulfillment, promotion, and inquiries).

During this period as Editor-in-Chief of Stuff/Fairfax Magazines, I led a large team creating 14 magazines, as well as editing NZ House & Garden and NZ Life & Leisure at the same time. This was a busy corporate role implementing necessary change in publishing processes while maintaining successful newsstand performances by individual titles.

I have always been an avid gardener and developed several properties with large and successful gardens - the Auckland gardens required many many visits to Kings Plant Barn, as does my daily gardening these days.

I am a fit, active person and since the sale of my business I have looked for a job just like this- part-time, in gardening and local. Kings Plant Barn is my go-to plant retailer and I'd love the opportunity to work there.