Braemar Station by Duncan and Carol Mackenzie
$70.00 NZD
Category: Farming
· Braemar Station is written and published by Duncan & Carol McKenzie, former owners of Braemar station, celebrating 50 years of farming on a Mackenzie Country station. · Braemar is a 64,000 acre Station situated on the eastern side of Lake Pukaki in the Mackenzie Country. Duncan and Caro ...Show more
My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm by Sam Vincent
$38.00 NZD
Category: Farming
A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm. Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$37.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
A Load of Bull by Amanda King
$50.00 NZD
Category: Photography
A stunning photographic book recording the extraordinary beauty of farm animals - cattle to be precise!Amanda King grew up in Brisbane, Australia, and like so many young Australasians before her, she eventually headed off on her OE. On her travels, she met a Kiwi farmer, and ended up living on a farm in ...Show more
Tools For The Top Paddock by Kane Brisco
$38.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Farmer Kane Brisco's tools for the physical and mental strains of life on the land. When Kane Brisco was at his lowest ebb, he could barely even look at his stock. He stood in the middle of a paddock, with water flowing over his boots, trying to comprehend how many days of rain he'd endured without a b ...Show more
For the Love of the Country: Celebrating farming in New Zealand by Alan Gibson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Farming
This gorgeous collection of photographs, accompanied by extended captions and insightful interviews, is a visual celebration of the New Zealand farmer and the landscape in which they live and work. It tells the stories of the people who are the backbone of farming in Aotearoa New Zealand — people who lo ...Show more
On The Farm - New Zealand's Invisible Women by David Hall
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
On the Farm: New Zealand’s Invisible Women tells the fascinating stories of Kiwi farm women predominantly in their own words, drawing from the vast archive of letters written to New Zealand farming magazines throughout the 20th century. It reveals the daily routines, the various roles women held on far ...Show more
Taking Stock - A Journey among Cows by Roger Morgan-Grenville
$46.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Since highland cattle ransacked his grandmother's vegetable patch when he was six, Roger Morgan-Grenville has been fascinated by cows.
SECONDHAND: High Country Woman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
A special book about a unique New Zealand high-country farmer and her historic sheep station. New Zealand's high country farmers are a special breed. They farm in tough terrain, at high altitudes, in areas where extreme climate puts both man and animal to the test. When she was widowed, with three child ...Show more
The Sheep's Tale - The Story of Our Most Misunderstood Farmyard Animal by John Lewis-Stempel
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
A warm and personal biography of the sheep by one of our most celebrated nature writers.Everybody thinks they know everything about sheep, because there is nothing to know. They are stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're 'sheepwrecking' the environment.Or maybe not. Contrary to ...Show more
How the Light Falls - Story of a Farmer, a Woman, Rescued from the Shadows by Marion Joll
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir