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9781869790288
New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Susan Pepperall & Waikato Times
In Stock: 2
In collaboration with The Waikato Times this book covers the history of the phenomenon that is the Fieldays. It looks at the origins, how it evolved, key players, royal family involvement, competitions, inventions, themes, international growth/exposure, rural bachelor competition, AgArt wear, economic benefits, the organisation today and the future

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9780958233217
Backyard Poultry order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Glenys O'Byrne
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A very practical non-technical book about how to keep poultry successfully in backyard and smallfarming settings. The major emphasis is on fowls but there are also useful sections and chapters on ducks, geese and turkeys.

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9781843404187
Bee Keeping order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Ned Challis
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It's no shock that the beekeeping trend is steadily on the rise. These fascinating and beautiful insects can be kept anywhere, whether your garden is a large country plot or an urban rooftop terrace. What's more, there's no sting in this tale: bees are a source of delight for honey lovers, hay-fever sufferers and gardeners alike. This charming and practical guide is intended for both the beginner and experienced beekeeper. It covers everything from setting up hives and maximising bees in the garden, to optimum honey production and a fascinating troubleshooting section. Illustrated throughout with stunning photography, you will find all you need to catch the bee buzz.

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9780760332368
Farm Tractor Classics order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Lee Klancher
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This lavishly illustrated collection celebrates all the classic tractors, from the earliest models to the most modern.
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9781843403586
Hen Keeping order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Jane Eastoe
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Chickens are back in style with a vengeance: poultry breeders are struggling to cope with the increase in demand and gardens resound to the contented cluck of chickens. This trend can be in part explained by the huge demand for organic and locally produced food; after all, what could be more natural than keeping your own chickens and collecting their eggs? This beautiful and practical guide advises on all aspects of chicken keeping, from advice on the full range of breeds available, choosing and buying the right chickens for you, to feeding and naming them and finally housing and caring for them. Illustrated throughout with stunning photography, you will find all you need to start and maintain your own chicken run.

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9780715336250
Keeping Chickens order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: Jeremy Hobson
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This title presents the perfect introduction to the rewarding hobby of poultry keeping. It reveals how, as well as being useful, chickens are interesting and colourful characters that make good pets and can enliven any garden. It fuses contemporary lifestyle design, imaginative and appealing images and lively, authoritative text to ensure the widest possible interest. It is a comprehensive guide to chicken breeds including hybrids and rescue birds. It offers everything you need to know about housing, feeding and welfare as well as a useful recipe section full of great ideas for using up all those extra fresh eggs.
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9781869662257
Pocket Guide to the Sheep Breeds of New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Graham Meadows
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DoP - October 2008, Auckland
180x128mm / 176pp
Full colour throughout
Home of more than 40 million sheep (over 10 per person), New Zealand is a major global exporter of sheep products: annual wool exports alone are worth well over $800m. Added to that, there is a rapidly growing interest from small businesses and lifestylers in specialist breeds and yarns. Sheep are also a major drawcard for overseas visitors. All of which popular demand adds up to good reason for publishing a Pocket Guide to Sheep Breeds of New Zealand, along with its companion volume, the Pocket Guide to Cattle Breeds of New Zealand. Originally published in large format several years ago by Reed, both books have been brought thoroughly up to date, with new pictures throughout and extended and updated text.

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9780143010890
Practical Smallfarming in New Zealand (Revised edition 1996) order quantity
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author: Trisha Fisk
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Enjoying a relaxed rural lifestyle on a smallfarm is the dream of many New Zealanders. But running a few sheep and goats on even a modest block can be anything but relaxing if you don't have the farming know-how or experience, and don't recognise the many problems that can occur with livestock and plants. This book has all the answers. Specifically written for New Zealand conditions, it is filled with practical advice on everything smallfarmers need to know to make their dream a successful reality:
  • How to manage and care for livestock, from sheep and horses to chooks and bees
  • How to manage pasture and trees
  • How to integrate the vegetable plot
  • How to site and build fences, drains, tracks and yards
  • and so much more!
Clear, easily understood diagrams and photographs complement the informed, no-nonsense text, making this book an indispensable reference tool for all smallfarmers, whether on ... more
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9781847734358
Self-Sufficiency Beekeeping order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Joanna Ryde
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As sustainability and organic living become increasingly popular, so does a desire to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. This timely book will help you to achieve self-sufficiency and make beekeeping a reality. Beekeeping is about management, control and learning to understand the honeybee. It can also become a very enjoyable and sociable pastime - visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun - and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight. Joanna Ryde covers all aspects of beekeeping, from the basic tools and equipment needed for setting up a hive to detailed advice on when to harvest honey and honey-inspired recipes, from delicious cakes to beauty products. This really is the definitive guide for anyone thinking of keeping bees.

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9781847734204
Self-sufficiency: Hen Keeping order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Mike Hatcher
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Self-sufficiency and organic living have never been more prominent and hen keeping is becoming increasingly popular. Part of a growing series of authoritative and inspirational titles, this book provides an introduction to some of the key aspects of aspiring to a self-sufficient lifestyle by keeping your own chickens and benefiting from the produce.

You don’t need a large garden to keep chooks and an average family only needs a couple of hens to keep them well stocked in fresh eggs all year round. The setup costs are minimal and you don’t need a whole host of expensive gadgets or equipment.

Packed with information on housing, food and water, daily care, disease prevention and cure, encouraging egg production and breeding, there is also comprehensive information on breeds and a list of useful contacts.

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9781444101201
Teach Yourself Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry order quantity
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Author: Victoria Roberts
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Raise Happy Chickens and Other Poultry is a quickly accessible but authoritative guide, suitable for total beginners, that provides all the information you need to start keeping your own chickens. Telling you which breed of bird lays best and providing useful guidance on housing, equipment and the necessities of day-to-day care, it meets all the needs of anyone who dreams of a garden full of happy, clucking birds. It also goes beyond just chickens to other types of poultry, and gives advice and practical guidelines on housing, with full explanation of key areas like welfare, behaviour and diet. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online ... more
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9781405345101
The New Complete Book of Self-sufficiency order quantity
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NZ$ 67.00 each
Hardback
Author: John Seymour
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Make the break, realise the dream and start living "The Good Life!" with John Seymour. The new edition of this enduring classic from the founding father of modern self-sufficiency, John Seymour, is still the key reference to living off the land. Covering all the practicals from ploughing fields to milking cows as well as information on how to create an urban organic garden and harness natural energy, this is perfect for anyone aspiring to the self-sufficient lifestyle. Packed with Seymour's tried-and-tested tips and invaluable nuggets of advice, discover how to reap the harvest, respect the land, stay healthy and waste nothing.

this revised edition published September 2009, UK

Hardback 408pp h282mm x w226mm x s30mm 1722g col. Illustrations

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9780716030188
The Right Way to Keep Chickens order quantity
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NZ$ 33.00 each
Paperback
Author: Virginia Shirt
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For generations, people in the countryside have kept chickens, mainly for the eggs. Now, more and more people, in town as well as countryside, are enjoying the pleasure of keeping hens in the garden and reaping the reward of those freshly-laid eggs every day. Virginia Shirt has lived with chickens for over 15 years so her knowledge of these fascinating birds is conditioned by practical experience. Her book is a revelation to every aspiring enthusiast. Concentrating initially on the very first steps, like choosing the correct spot in the garden for the coop, the book goes on to deal with feeding and rearing chicks and comprehensively covers matters relating to health and disease all aided by illustrations throughout. Her book is the essential reference tool for every chicken lover.

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9781906787684
The Self-Sufficiency Bible order quantity
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NZ$ 42.00 each
Hardback
Author: Simon Dawson
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In today's economic climate, self-sufficiency is increasingly seen as a viable means of taking control of our lives and safeguarding for the future - this is the book that will help every householder do just that. Each of the twelve chapters focuses on key topics for living a more self-sustainable life, with practical information and expert guidance that will make the subject come alive for everyone, whatever their needs, circumstances and resources. This means that the gardening chapter, for example, is appropriate both for people with an urban back yard or a more substantial plot of land. Written in a down-to-earth, engaging and often amusing style, the book will appeal to single people as much as to those with large families, to women who want to be more creative, resourceful and independent, to men who want to rediscover their inner 'hunter-gatherer', and to parents looking to equip their children with basic life skills.
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9781877333781
Who Owns the High Country? The Controversial Story of Tenure Review in New Zealand order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Ann Brower
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The last 20 years have seen massive change in the iconic high-country stations of the South Island. Traditionally, a lease between the Crown and the runholder gave the right to farm in perpetuity. Recently there has been an initiative to reform this ownership structure in a process called tenure review. This has seen deals struck between runholders and the Government that allow the runholder to privatise (and subsequently develop) parts of their farm and in exchange offer other parts of the farm back to the Crown to be 'retired' as conservation land. On paper this appeared to be a win-win scenario. The reality, however, has been very different.
Through her research, the author exposed the fact that in most cases of tenure review, the Crown was actually paying the runholder to conclude these agreements, while at the same time leaving the runholder with the freedom to develop their newly freeholded land for massive profits. Examples ... more

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9781877361210
Your Last Fencepost : Retirement Planning For New Zealand Farmers order quantity
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author: Joan Baker
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DoP - NOvember 2008, Auckland
The average age of a New Zealand farmer is 58-years-old. Most of these hard working men and women of the land are approaching retirement without a well-planned exit strategy in place. This book tackles each and every difficult issue facing farmers today - from selling the farm and getting the right price, preparing the family and safeguarding the farm's future, to life after the farm and investing their hardearned money. Farming is a complete and absorbing lifestyle, as well as a way of life. How does one get ready to drive their last fencepost, and most likely leave their home, their work, and maybe their community? Will the farm be sold? Who will inherit the farm? What about the other siblings in terms of fairness? Where will Mum and Dad go? What will they do after leading active lives and farming is all they know? What will they do for income? Will there be a conflict with capital used for the ... more

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9781877029134
Back To Basics Worm Farm Management order quantity
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NZ$ 10.00 each
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Author: Eric Wilson
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Eric Wilson's extensive experience in worm farming makes him well equipped to discuss varities, numbers, bed sizes, manure types, tools - in short, all that is needed to farm worms - right through to mass production possiblities. WORM FARM MANAGEMENT contains advice on feeding regimes, performance indicators, harvesting, temprature requirements and castings. There is information on intriguing behaviours such as the gut shot syndrome, worm walkout and breeder burnout.

Whether you are interested in running a worm farm purely for the needs of the home garden bed or for fullscale commercial production, the information contained in WORM FARM MANAGEMENT is vital. It is a book that any worm farmer will keep wriggling back to.

Eric Wilson has been farming worms for many years. He has run The Australian Worm Growers School on the outskirts of Sydney, which has helped launch numerous worm success stories.
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9781869414603
Biodynamic Perspectives order quantity
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Author: VIVANO Frank
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BIODYNAMIC PERSPECTIVES is a collection of articles published in the Bio Dynamic Association newsletter, examining many aspects of biodynamic farming and gardening. These articles will form an ideal reference work for biodynamic farmers and those people interested to learn more about biodynamic farming. This book builds on the work BIODYNAMICS, NEW DIRECTIONS FOR FARMING AND GARDENING IN NZ, first published by Century Hutchinson in 1989. This new book is not an introduction to the topic and includes useful information with a wider application than is found in the earlier work. An outline of topics: Soils, Fertility (manures etc.), Weeds, Water, Animal Husbandry, Fruit Trees, Trees, Home Gardening, Pests and Diseases, Astronomy, Philosophy/Ecology, Associations/Distributors
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9780760335222
Field Guide to Goats order quantity
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NZ$ 47.50 each
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Author: Cheryl Kimball
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The ultimate breed resource, this volume provides detailed descriptions of more that twenty goat breeds, from the popular Nubian, Pygmy and Boer, to the rare and beautiful Golden Guernsey. Illustrated with 150 colour photographs, this convenient, easy-to-use field guide includes exhaustive information about behaviour, characteristics, breeding, history, as well as a glossary of caprine terms and a list of breed associations.
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9780476010642
Handmade Farm Fences order quantity
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NZ$ 25.00 each
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Author: Stephen D Aspden
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From back country East Coast pumice soiled hills, through Waipukurau's rolling country and up to the peat-lands of the Waikato, Fencer Fred learned his craft at building conventional, electric, rail fences and assisted in the construction of many sheep, dairy- and cattle yards.
This book is intended to be a resource fo novice fencers, adgiculture students, small-land block owners, large farm manager and fencing supplies companies. It is a step-by-step guide to constructing a 'conventional' farm fence which is designed to confine sheep and cattle and which will meet the requirements set down in the New Zealand Fencing Act 1978 no. 50 … to be recognised as a boundary fence. Contents: Preparations, Key posts, Running posts, Wire work, Stapling, Swinging the gate, Fence identification, Tidy and pack up, Other useful information, Glossary.
 
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