Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle, 4th Edition - Health, Handling, Breeding by Heather Smith Thomas
$34.99 AUD
Category: Rural | Series: Storey's Guide to Raising Ser.
Whether a farmer is raising one cow or a herd, Storey's Guide to Raising Beef Cattle is the most reliable reference for ensuring a successful, healthy cattle operation. In this fully updated, full-color fourth edition, long-time cattle rancher and author Heather Smith Thomas explains every aspect of bov ...Show more
Dowsing for Beginners by Richard Webster
$30.00 AUD
Category: Rural | Series: For Beginners Ser.
Learn how to use the tools of dowsing: angle rods, divining rods, pendulums, wands, and even your own hands and body. Then go on to discover the techniques successful dowsers use to find what they're seeking. The detailed explanation of map dowsing, combined with the dowsing disc in the special offer at ...Show more
Slice of Organic Life: Projects ... by DK Australia
$39.99 AUD
Category: Rural
A Slice of Organic Life is the perfect guide to a more organic and simple life, with projects for your garden, home, community and life, including a foreword by Matt and Lentil Purbrick (of Grown & Gathered). From growing and preserving your own food, to raising your own animals, making natural body ...Show more
Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: Reflections on a Life of Raising Chickens by Martin Gurdon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Rural
This is a book about keeping chickens, but it is also feather-clad soap opera of primal urges. Written from firsthand experience, its pages are filled with the quest for absolute power, sex, death, jealousy, gender-bending, and huge vet bills. Beyond all the intrigue and drama, however, there are even s ...Show more
Sowing Seeds in the Desert: Natural Farming, Global Restoration, and Ultimate Food Security by Masanobu Fukuoka; Larry Korn (Editor)
$33.00 AUD
Category: Rural
The earth is in great peril, due to the corporatization of agriculture, the rising climate crisis, and the ever-increasing levels of global poverty, starvation, and desertification on a massive scale. This present condition of global trauma is not "natural," but a result of humanity's destructive action ...Show more
Milkwood - Real Skills for down-To-earth Living by Kirsten Bradley; Nick Ritar
$40.00 AUD
$45.00 (11% off)
Category: Rural
The skills that we learn bind our lives together. Do you want to know how to grow your own food? Or how to keep bees? How to forage for edible seaweed along the shoreline, or wild greens down by the stream? Maybe you're curious about growing mushrooms or how to grow the perfect tomato. You're invited to ...Show more
Bees of Australia: A Photographic Guide by James Dorey
$49.99 AUD
Category: Rural
Bees are the darlings of the insect world. It is a great joy to see these tenacious insects hard at work, peacefully buzzing from flower to flower on warm and sunny days. Many people recognise the worth of bees, as well as that they face many threats. But very few know about the diversity and importance ...Show more
The Farm Community, The by Emma Lane; Tom Lane
$39.99 AUD
Category: Rural
This is the story of a family wanting to live a simpler life and a farm built with the involvement of the local community. The Farm at Byron Bay has since become a diverse community of its own, made up of organic growers, chefs, bakers - all connected by the common values of simplicity, sustainability ...Show more
On Sheep: Diary of a Swedish Shepherd by Axel Lindén
$19.99 AUD
Category: Rural
'Axel Lindén is a shepherd-philosopher with James Herriot's knack for mishap and an almost Chekhovian deadpan humour.' Observer'Endearing and liberating.' Idler Magazine Why do we keep sheep? Alex Lindén ruminates as he watches his sheep ruminating. Naive and inexperienced, he has ditched his doctoral ...Show more
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise by Joel F. Salatin
$44.95 AUD
$58.00 (22% off)
Category: Rural
Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable. After all, the farm population is dwindling. It takes too much capital to start ...Show more
Wisdom for Beekeepers by Jim Tew
$29.95 AUD
$45.00 (33% off)
Category: Rural
These beautifully presented collections include 500 tips written by successful hen keepers and beekeepers. Tips are divided into ten chapters covering all aspects of hen keeping and bee keeping, making these guides an enjoyable source of information for beginners or the more experienced.