| Author: | Janet Luke |
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self sufficiency/small farming |
A Beekeeper's Year follows the progress of three novice beekeepers with three different types of hive, as they navigate their way through their first year of beekeeping. Follow their journey as they set up and manage their Top Bar, Warr and Flow hives - from o... read more
| Author: | Wendyl Nissen |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
Wendyl Nissen's year-long journey towards self-sufficiency. The book details each home discovery as it happens - both the triumphs and the disasters - while Wendyl slowly sheds her corporate life. A Home Companion is the book for any woman who finds herself yearning to get her hands covered in soil and become a green goddess.
| Author: | Chris Ferreira |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
This is a no-nonsense guide to choosing, establishing and sustaining your patch of rural paradise in Australia and New Zealand. Chris Ferreira brings years of experience, a wealth of knowledge and a great se... read more
| Author: | RANT PHIL |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
Bees are an essential part of our natural world and their importance in pollinating our food crops cannot be overstated. Over a third of the world's food is dependent upon pollinators, of which the honey bee Apis mellifera is possibly the... read more
| Author: | Michelle Templin |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
Fresh golden-yolk eggs in ready supply, organic fertilizer for the vegetable garden-what's not to love about keeping chickens? This handbook covers all you need to know to get started raising your very own brood of chickens. Whether you're considering getting chickens, or already have a few in the gar... read more
| Author: | Kim Pezza |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees is the guide to successfully caring for a hive. As a comprehensive primer for first time beekeepers, it includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs that help to ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard beekeeping. It takes the reader from pl... read more
| Author: | Dave Toht |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
"Backyard Homesteading" addresses the needs of many people who want to take control of the food they eat and the products they use--even if they live in a urban or suburban house on a typical-size lot. It shows hom... read more
| Author: | Glenys O'Byrne |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
Backyard poultry is a very practical non-technical book about how to keep poultry successfully in New Zealand in backyard and smalllfarming settings. The major emphasis is on fowls but there are also useful sections and chapters on ducks, geese and turkeys.
| Author: | Val Porter |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
Placing cows on the catwalk, an award-winning photographer captures them in all their glory. Each beautiful beast is shown posed against a drapery backdrop, and captured at her most manicured moment prior to competition. The top breeds from around the world are gr... read more
| Author: | Andy Case |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
" Beautiful Pigs presents pigs as you have never seen them before - primped, polished and looking positively gorgeous. Every aspect of porcine elegance has been captured here in glorious full-colour photography. In this beautifully illustrated and ground-breaking ... read more
| Author: | Pam Gregory |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
| Series: | Digging and Planting |
Beekeeping is a fascinating and rewarding activity and is hugely important to the survival of our declining bee population, as much covered recently by the media. This attractive book offers practical and informative advice on how to get started, how to achieve and c... read more
| Author: | Alice Mackenzie |
| Category: |
self sufficiency/small farming |
