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Farm for Life by Tangaroa Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The awesomely inspiring true story of how Tangaroa Walker turned his life around through farming - and how what he learned can help anyone succeed. Tangaroa Walker's early years weren't easy. Born into a gang family, he was adopted out twice and attended six different schools before he was six. He only ...Show more
This Farming Life 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
The Shearers by Ruth Entwistle Low
$45.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The Shearers is a colourful account of the men and women, past and present, who have committed their lives to shearing in New Zealand. Their voices - in their own words, often brutally honest reflections on what it is to be a shearer - are at the heart of this book- their training, their tools, their ca ...Show more
Historic Sheep Stations of New Zealand by Colin Wheeler
$100.00 NZD
Category: Farming
A glorious new edition of Colin Wheeler's seminal books on the historic sheep stations of New Zealand Between 1967 and 1972, Colin Wheeler visited 60 of New Zealand's historic sheep stations across the North and South Islands. Travelling thousands of kilometres with his wife, Phyllis, the pair went to p ...Show more
Tough Country: Tall tales of bushmen, bulldozers and back-country blokes by Mike Bellamy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Mike Bellamy's father Barry is as tough as they come. Widely credited as the inspiration for Barry Crump's back-country character Sam Cash, Barry was a roving worker in rural North Island during the 50s, 60s and 70s. Tough Country is a book about a father by a son, about a bygone era of bushmen, scrub-c ...Show more
Polluted Inheritance : New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis (BWB Texts) 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
Mountains to Sea: Solving New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis by Mike Joy
$15.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The state of New Zealand's freshwater has become an urgent public issue in recent years. From across the political spectrum, concern is growing about the pollution of New Zealand's rivers and streams. We all know they need fixing. But how do we do it? In Mountains to Sea, leading ecologist Mike Joy team ...Show more
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
English Pastoral: An Inheritance - The Sunday Times bestseller from the author of The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
The author of the beloved No.1 bestseller The Shepherd's Life returns with a stirring history of family, loss and the land over three generations on a Lake District farm 'A beautifully-written story of a family, a home and a changing landscape.' - Nigel Slater 'Just about perfect.' - Wendell Berry James ...Show more
Life on Muzzle: Three Generations on New Zealand's Most Remote Station by Fiona Redfern
$45.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Remote Muzzle Station in southern Marlborough has captured the hearts and minds of generations, including Fiona Redfern and her parents before her. Fiona grew up and thrived in the splendid isolation, and wouldn't have it any other way. Now Fiona and her husband Guy are running the station and raising t ...Show more