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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
Humane Livestock Handling by Temple Grandin
$59.99 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Temple Grandin, one of the most influential advocate of humane livestock treatment, has spent her life developing stress-free facility designs and standards of humane management. In an environment of growing concern regarding large factory farming practices, Grandin is a voice of reason explaining the b ...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
Family Friendly Farming by Joel Salatin
$0.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
Saving the landscape, rebuilding entrepreneurial rural families, and protecting nutritious food are the themes of this timeless treatise-hence the word "testament." Delving into the soul of the Salatin family's nationally acclaimed Polyface Farm, author Joel Salatin offers "Family Friendly Farming" as t ...Show more
Soil Science by Ron McLaren
$95.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture
An introduction to basic soil science theory which is essential for the proper use and maintenance of this resource. Pedology, soil chemistry and fertility, soil physics and soil management are all considered in a New Zealand context.