Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis by Mike Joy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Farming | Series: BWB Texts
New Zealand's dairy industry is big business. But what are the hidden - and not so hidden - costs of intensive farming? Evidence presented here by ecologist Mike Joy demonstrates that intensive dairy farming has degraded our freshwater rivers, streams and lakes to such a degree that we face an environ ...Show more
Antipodean Empire - The New Zealand and Australian Land Company in New Zealand by Noel Crawford
$65.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The Cow Book: A Story of Life on an Irish Family Farm by John Connell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The intimate account of a year on an Irish farm - and a keyhole history of man's relationship with the cow. Farming has been in John Connell's family for generations, but he never intended to follow in his father's footsteps. Until, one winter, he finds himself back on the farm and begins to learn the w ...Show more
For the Love of Soil: Strategies to Regenerate Our Food Production Systems by Nicole Masters
$55.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Learn a roadmap to healthy soil and revitalised food systems to powerfully address these times of challenge. This book equips producers with knowledge, skills and insights to regenerate ecosystem health and grow farm/ranch profits. Learn how to: - Triage soil health and act to fast-track soil and plant ...Show more
This Farming Life - Five generations on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$37.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Farmer Tim Saunders manages to incorporate some writing into his days, and here he describes his life through the seasons: Summer, shearing, slaughter, crop harvest, conservation; Autumn, floods, trading stock, drenching, dagging; Winter, maize harvest, lambing; and Spring, docking, pet sheep, weaning. ...Show more
Hard Country: A Golden Bay Life by Robby (Robin) Robilliard
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Robby Robilliard and her husband Garry arrived in Golden Bay in 1957. Married in their early twenties, and with a child on the way, they longed to own their own sheep station. When they bought Rocklands, a marginal farm on the fringe of the Takaka Valley, bordering Abel Tasman National Park, their dream ...Show more
Snow on the Lindis by Bee Dawson; Madge Snow
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Second hand. A station matriarch recounts a life lived on the famous Morven Hills Station. Snow on the Lindis is Madge Snow's story of living at Morven Hills Station on the Lindis Pass. Morven Hills is one of New Zealand's most well-known high-country stations - once an enormous 400,000 acres. The grea ...Show more
Dust to Gold: The Story of Bendigo Station by John Perriam; Stephen Jaquiery (Photographer); Robin Major
$50.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Secondhand. The story of Bendigo Station is rich and fascinating, from its earliest days as the scene of New Zealand's richest quartz reef gold strike in the 1860s to its establishment as a 11,000 hectare sheep station producing many of New Zealand's highest quality top price Merino clips.
John and Charles Enys: Castle Hill Runholders 1864-1891 by Abrahamson, Jenny
$50.00 NZD
Category: Farming
John and Charles Enys: Castle Hill Runholders (1864-1891) records the story of two Cornish brothers who ran the Castle Hill sheep run for more than 25 years in the late 19th century. Extracts from letters by both brothers and paintings by Charles that they sent to their family at Enys in Cornwell give a ...Show more
Many a Muddy Morning by Mark Warren
$38.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The off-roading, hillseeking and muddymorning adventures of farming legend Mark Warren. Mark Warren is a larger-than-life character of rural New Zealand. He grew up with an obsession with Land Rovers, council tip trucks, bulldozers, hill-country tractors, snow-plows - basically anything with four wheels ...Show more
McGinty Musters "Erewhon" by Tony Robinson
$28.00 NZD
Category: Farming
" McGinty Musters' Erewhon ' is an account of the happenings and experiences of a down country lad who talks himself into a mustering role on the well known high country Canterbury sheep station 'Erewhon'. With no knowledge of mustering, and not even knowing how to work dogs, just with enthusiasm and th ...Show more