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Australia is world-renowned for its often extraordinary and unique natural environment – including many of its plants and animals.This beautiful little book highlights an often overlooked, but just as remarkable, aspect of our natural world: Australia's fungi.Many are brightly coloured, some..
$39.95
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A Year on the Farm Sally Wise
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Renowned cook, Sally Wise has always wanted her own cooking school, and her own farm, where she could grow the things she wants to cook with.One day she and her husband came across a property in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley with an orchard full of fruit trees, and a funny old chalet/cabin out the ..
$25.95
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Backyard Poultry- Naturally by Alanna Moore3rd edition.What is the difference between a Frizzle and a Fav? a Pekin and a Polish? A Welsummer and a Wyandotte? How do you successfully determine the sex of day old chickens? What natural products can be used to treat lice infestations? And what ..
$39.95
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The Comprehensive Photographic Guide to Humane Slaughtering and ButcheringSlaughter and butcher your own animals safely and humanely with this award-winning guide.Providing detailed photography of every step of the process, Adam Danforth shows you everything you need to know to butcher poul..
$42.95
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Cattle Lameness and Hoofcare by Roger BloweyWritten by the well known UK hoofcare specialist Roger Blowey, this is a fully illustrated guide to the causes and prevention of cattle lameness. It also contains comprehensive details of hoof anatomy and trimming techniques.Colour photos. 208 p..
$99.95
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In The Complete Mushroom Hunter, mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom, hunting and identifying wild mushrooms, mushroom safety, and on to preparing and serving the fungi. Stunning photographs and Lincoff's fascinating anecdotes from the fie..
$29.95
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How to Design and Build an Inexpensive System for Growing Plants in WaterFarmer Tyler show home DIYers how to build over a dozen hydroponics growing systems, some of which cost only a few dollars to make.DIY Hydroponic Gardens takes the mystery out of growing in water.With practical info..
$32.95
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For the first time, a definitive field guide covering more than 500 fungi species with 548 superb colour photographs. All fungi photographed in their natural environment - many for the first time with information on fungal biology, ecology, classification, distribution, roles of fungi in nature, and..
$42.95
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Bee keeping isn't just for the professional farmer-bees can be kept in any situation from simple backyards and rooftops to large expanses of farmland.Discover whether honey beekeeping is right for you, and find out everything you need to know to keep and acquire bees in this updated guide.Ho..
$27.95
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Jack has researched 41 of the breeds of cattle which you would be most likely to see grazing Britain's farms. They are presented here in a handy reference guide. For each animal, he gives a description of their appearance, a brief history and considers their uses today. In this title, each text is a..
$24.95
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Know Your Chickensby Jack ByardThis title introduces 44 breeds of chicken which can be seen pecking and preening in Britain today. Jack accompanies each with a description of the animal's appearance and explains the different colours and patterns which appear within the breed. Jack has tho..
$24.95
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In this sheep breeds book Jack Byard takes us alphabetically through 40 of the breeds which are the most likely to be seen on British farms (and as many Australian breeds originate in Britain the content is relevant in the Australian context).For each breed he dedicates two pages, the left being..
$24.95
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Compiled from previously published books and in a handy, pocket-sized format, this is a fresh look at Henry Brewis’s fondest enemy: the mule yow.Each pair of pages has a Brewis cartoon on one page with one of his verses or snippets facing it. They writings and drawings complement each other as t..
$12.95
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Milkwood: Skills for Permaculture Living
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This beautifully presented book gives readers the nitty-gritty guide for five diverse ways to nourish ourselves from stewarding nature's abundance.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 ..
$44.00
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Natural Farming: A Practical Guide by Pat Coleby
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Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message: healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other artificial fertilisers over decades, and explains soil ..
$33.95
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Permaculture - A Spiritual Approach
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The Garden Seed Saving Guide - Easy Heirloom Seeds for the Home GardenerAt a time where commercial forces have increased control over the food supply by patenting seeds with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), seed saving has become an important skill to encourage and share. Longtime organic..
$29.95
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Practical Self Sufficiency: An Australian Guide To Sustainable Living
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Practical Self-Sufficiency: An Australian Guide To Sustainable LivingAUTHOR: STRAWBRIDGE DICK & JAMESPractical Self Sufficiency is a wonderfully useful and accessible title that contains something for absolutely everyone!This guide offers clear step by step advice and contains: Th..
$39.95
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Raising a Calf for Beef
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In this practical guide, Phyllis Hobson covers everything you need to know to successfully raise a calf for beef.Hobson offers expert advice on choosing a calf, housing and pasture, nutrition, routine maintenance, and medical care, as well as techniques for slaughtering and butchering.With j..
$19.95
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Do you eye that derelict patch of ground on your way to work and dream of turning it into a vegetable garden? Do you love living in the city but fantasise about keeping hens? Do you look at the weeds by the bus stop and wonder if they'd make a nice salad? Then you're a rurbanite. You have a passi..
$29.95
Ex Tax:$27.23
Brand: Sunstate
The Garden Seed Saving Guide - Easy Heirloom Seeds for the Home GardenerAt a time where commercial forces have increased control over the food supply by patenting seeds with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), seed saving has become an important skill to encourage and share. Longtime organic..
$18.95
Ex Tax:$17.23
The Goatkeeper's Veterinary Book
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The Goatkeeper's Veterinary Book by Peter DunnPractical and easy to use, The Goatkeeper’s Veterinary Book has served as the standard veterinary reference work for a full generation of goatkeepers. The emphasis of the book is preventive care. It covers: the principles of health and management; pr..
$99.95
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The Weed Forager's Handbook - A guide to edible and medicinal weeds in AustraliaStep into the world of our least admired botanical companions. Peel back the layers of prejudice and discover the finer side of the plants we call weeds. An astonishing number are either edible or medicinal, and have..
$19.95
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