Essential Book of Homesteading by Ashley English
$49.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming | Series: Homemade Living
Salvage style - decorating with recycled items like wicker furniture, industrial pendant lights and even tractor seats! - has become a chic way to create unique rooms. Let the experts at Country Living show you how to find and make the most of discarded treasures, such as old windows and hand-forged iro ...Show more
Farm Anatomy: Curious Parts and Pieces of Country Life by Julia Rothman
$24.99 NZD
$34.99 (28% off)
Category: self sufficiency/small farming | Series: Anatomy Ser.
From keeping chickens to raising vegetables, the allure of farm life is permeating popular culture. This visual guide to the parts and pieces of rural living dissects everything from tractors, pigs, and sheep to fences, hay bales, crop rotation patterns, and tools. It includes instructions for everythin ...Show more
Farm Safety Handbook by Rick Kubik
$19.99 NZD
$50.00 (60% off)
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
Again and again farming tops the list of the most dangerous occupations. And with so many hobby farms springing up, new generations of farmers taking over, and new and complicated machinery arriving on the farm, the work just gets more dangerous. This book is dedicated to keeping farmers safe - to preve ...Show more
Find It Eat It: Cooking Foraged Food Gathered Around New Zealand by Michael Daly
$24.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
Foraging for wild foods is gaining momentum around the country. Community groups are being created, there are dedicated foraging websites and articles in foodie and lifestyle magazines. People are more and more keen to eat organic and local fresh food and this book makes it apparent that there is plenty ...Show more
Four Seasons with a Grumpy Goat : How I Learnt to Stop Worrying and Love Life on the Farm by Carol Altmann
$36.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
A tree change is about finding a simpler life, right? And that's what Carol Altmann and her partner were seeking when they moved to a hobby farm in Tasmania. But things go wrong in a surprising number of ways as they try to adapt to life on the farm surrounded by an odd assortment of animals - a goat t ...Show more
Gaia's Garden by Toby Hemenway
$59.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming | Reading Level: General Adult
The first edition of Gaia's Garden sparked the imagination of America's home gardeners, introducing permaculture's central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach an ...Show more
Got Sun? Go Solar: Harness Nature's Free Energy to Heat and Power Your Grid-Tied Home by Rex A Ewing
$37.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
This straight-talking book cuts through the green energy hype and explains how grid-connected homeowners can be smart about their energy future. Solar and wind-generated electricity, solar water heating, passive solar techniques and geothermal heating/cooling will enable homeowners to become self-suffic ...Show more
Healthy Bee, Sick Bee by Phil Lester
$30.00 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
Phil Lester's first book, The Vulgar Wasp, was about one of the world's most hated insects. His second is about just the opposite the honey bee, arguably one of our best-loved six-legged creatures. People have revered honey bees for centuries. Today we celebrate them with toys, postage stamps and camp ...Show more
Healthy Money Healthy Planet: Developing Sustainability Through New Money Systems by Deirdre Kent
$34.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
"Deirdre Kent's book should be read by everyone concerned about social justice and the survival of the planet and humanity." Prue Hyman, Victoria University Healthy Money, Healthy Planet offers some solutions to a range of environmental and social problems throughout the world. The pressure for contin ...Show more
Hentopia: Create a Hassle-Free Habitat for Happy Chickens: 21 Innovative Projects by FRANK HYMAN
$49.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
More eggs, less work! And more enjoyment for both the chickens and their keeper! That's the promise of Frank Hyman's Hentopia. From the Vending Machine Feeder to the Refilling Rainwaterer, Hyman's innovative building projects are designed to save time and money, while keeping chickens safe, healthy, cl ...Show more
Hideout: Cabins, Shacks, Barns, Sheds by MONSA PUBLICATIONS
$49.99 NZD
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
Cabins have become one of the favourite hiding places for people looking for a perfect place to rest and connect with nature. Environmentally friendly homes, cutting-edge sustainable architecture that have ecological solutions and a low environmental impact. Buildings with smart and compact design, in w ...Show more
High Noon by Jean-Francois Rischard
$31.99 NZD
$46.95 (31% off)
Category: self sufficiency/small farming
This text challenges us to take an alternative approach to the 20 biggest global problems of the 21st century. The author concludes that while our difficulties belong to the future, our means of solving them belong to the past and proposes unusual and persuasive alternatives.