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Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler
$39.99 NZD
Category: Agriculture
In his transformation from staunch urbanite to countrified goat farmer, Kessler explores the rustic roots of many aspects of Western culture, and how diet, alphabet, religions, and economy all grew out of a pastoral setting.
Healthy Cattle Naturally by Pat Coleby
$59.99 NZD
Category: Agriculture
This volume demonstrates the inescapable link between good land management and raising healthy productive animals. Modern farming practices, including improved paddock and farm layouts, water conservation and the use of soil analyses are examined.
The Biodynamic Farm: Developing a Holistic Organism by Karl-Ernst Osthaus (transl. by Beate Buchinger)
$32.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Large-scale agriculture tends to view a farm as a means for producing a certain amount of grain, milk or meat. This practical book argues instead for a holistic method of farming: the farm as a living organism. This is the principle of biodynamic farming. The author, an experienced farmer, takes a down- ...Show more
Choosing and Keeping Ducks and Geese by Liz Wright
$29.99 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Ducks and geese make wonderful pets. Not only will they control the insects in your garden and act as handy lawn mowers and watchdogs, they will also provide you with a constant supply of fresh, delicious eggs. With detailed information on over 40 of the most popular duck and geese breeds, this book sho ...Show more
How to Set Up Your Farm Workshop by Rick Kiubick
$0.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Today even the small or hobby farmer has to contend with his or her share of machinery - and keeping that machinery running smoothly can cost far less (and perhaps afford the mechanically minded farmer greater pleasure) if it's done right on the farm. For the new farmer or the urban transplant who'd lik ...Show more
Big Buck$ for Pastoral Farmers - Commercial Pastoral Goat Farming for More Profit by Garrick Batten; Caprinex Enterprises Staff (Contribution by)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Commercial Pastoral Goat Farming For More Profit Essential reading for pastoral farmers to profitably farm commercial goats for meat, fibre, weed and pasture control on New Zealand farms. This definitive book on the subject by an acknowledged expert gathers 40 years of academic, industry and practical k ...Show more
The Contrary Farmer by Gene Logsdon
$45.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Critics of American agriculture bemoan the widespread decline of family farms. Gene Logsdon asserts that the solution to this crisis is cottage farming - farming part-time, for fun as well as profit. For those seeking a saner, more authentic connection with a piece of ground, Logsdon explains ways to co ...Show more
Farm by Vaughan Yarwood
$69.99 NZD
Category: Agriculture
This year, highly regarded journalist Vaughan Yarwood and photographer Arno Gasteiger travelled through rural New Zealand, visiting and staying with a range of farming families, on properties as diverse as a Waikato dairy farm, a Canterbury wheat farm, a Southland sheep farm, a Central Otago merino run ...Show more
The Chicken Chronicles: Sitting with the Angels Who Have Returned with My Memories: Glorious, Rufus, Gertrude Stein, Splendor, Hortensia, Agnes of God, The Gladyses & Babe: A Memoir by Alice Walker
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
When Alice Walker grew up in the deep south of America, her family always kept chickens - for meat and for eggs - and her job was to chase down the Sunday dinner! In later life, when she settled in Mexico and was growing her own food, she realised how much she missed keeping them and decided to get ...Show more
Wisdom of the Bees by Erik Berrevoets
$39.99 NZD
Category: Agriculture
While the benefits of Steiner's research into agriculture and education are increasingly recognized, his research into the nature of bees has had limited impact on beekeeping practices and on our general understanding of nature. Wisdom of the Bees examines Steiner's insights and research into the nature ...Show more
Handy Farm Devices and How to Mke them by Rolfe Cobleigh
$39.95 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Handy Farm Devices and How to Make Them, a classic from the Golden Age of American Farming, is as useful and pertinent for homesteaders and small-scale farmers today as it was when it was first published more than seventy-five ago. A wealth of labor- and money-saving projects fills its pages: spill-proo ...Show more