Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
'The remarkable story of an astounding transformation' George Monbiot, author of Feral.In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fa ...Show more
A High Country Life - Tales & Recipes from a New Zealand Sheep Station by Philippa Cameron
$45.00 NZD
Category: Farming
A High Country memoir of life through the seasons on a large sheep station, with delicious recipes. Life on Otematata Station, a 40,000 hectare high country station in Otago, is busy and varied. Philippa Cameron and her husband, Joe, who is the fifth generation to work the farm, help care for this vast ...Show more
Farm for Life - Mahi, mana and life on the land by Tangaroa Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: Farming
How farming helped Tangaroa Walker to stand up, stand out and realize his own dreams.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 were pretty rough. Adopted twice, he went ...Show more
Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand: The Definitive Guide by Andrew Matheson; Murray Reid
$60.00 NZD
Category: Farming
For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the bible for New Zealand beekeepers. The only comprehensive guide to keeping bees in New Zealand, it provides both amateur and professional beekeepers with details on honey bee management throughout the year, advice on handling hive pr ...Show more
If They All Came Back by John Foley
$25.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Celebrates stories from South Canterbury region between 1880-1960." ... stories of heroic women, robust happy children and laconic, big-hearted men, for whom the heartbreak of seasons, lonliness nad sickness failed to break their humour and humanity. The tragedy beneath is only remembered for the comedy ...Show more
Bees and Their Keepers - From waggle-dancing to killer bees, from Aristotle to Winnie-the Pooh by Lotte Moller
$45.00 NZD
Category: Beekeeping
A beautifully illustrated and thoroughly engaging cultural history of beekeeping - packed with anecdote, humour and enriching historical detail. The perfect gift. Beekeeper and garden historian Lotte Möller explores the activities inside and outside the hive while charting the bees' natural order and ha ...Show more
The Resilient Farmer: Weathering the Challenges of Life and the Land by Doug Avery
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Eight years, the drought lasted. Marlborough's hills bleached straw-yellow then became ash, so bare the earth's bones poked through, dusty and crumbling. Day after day, the sky was a relentless, empty blue. Sometimes we could see clouds, grey and fat with the promise of rain, passing by on the northwest ...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