Behind The Reins
$69.99 NZD
Category: Farming
The book weaves together a selection of anecdotes from the life of Nick van der Sande and his family and their career managing the famous DB Clydesdale horses. From retellings of events to animal and human character studies, these stories are guaranteed to stimulate feelings of awe, sadness, humour and ...Show more
Farm Tractors: The History of the Tractor by Robert N. Pripps
$39.99 NZD
Category: Farming
Here is the complete illustrated history of the farm tractor, from the steamers of the 1850s to the current monstrous machines. Whether you're someone who has farmed or someone simply with a love of the land, this book will give you a new perspective on the enormous influence of the tractor upon the Ame ...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
Graft: Motherhood, Family and a Year on the Land (h/B) by Maggie MacKellar
$40.00 NZD
Category: Farming
In my mind I walk over the land. I run my hands through the grass as if it were the hair on my head. I dig my fingers into the dirt as if the soil were the crust of my skin. In Graft, Maggie MacKellar describes a year on a Merino wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania, and all of life – and death – th ...Show more
Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution by Sarah Langford
$30.00 NZD
Category: Farming
Rooted charts a quiet revolution taking place in our fields, barns and hedgerows, led by a new generation of farmers on a path of powerful change.Sarah Langford had left her country roots behind to live and work in the city as a barrister. But when she found herself back in the countryside, gravitating ...Show more
The Lean Dairy Farmer: Save Time, Cut Costs, Eliminate Waste to Create a More Productive, Profitable and Higher Quality Farm by Jana Hocken
$39.99 NZD
Category: Farming
Farmers are struggling around the world with shrinking profits and increasing costs and consumer/ society demands. Improving productivity on farms and reducing costs is essential for the farming industry to survive yet farmers have little to no access to business training. This is the first book availab ...Show more
The Smallfarming Life: New Zealand's Smallfarming Movement, 1977-2006 by Ian F. Grant
$20.00 NZD
Category: Farming
This book is the story of the NZ Association of Smallfarmers, but it is equally the story of an extraordinary farming revolution that is everywhere to be seen, but has more often been blindly criticised and opposed than it has been analysed and understood. Smallfarming has re-populated the New Zealand c ...Show more
This Farming Life - Five generations on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$36.99 NZD
Category: Farming | Reading Level: near fine
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
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
$36.99 NZD
Category: Farming | Reading Level: good-very good
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
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