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    Kings of Their Own Ocean
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    Kings of Their Own Ocean

    This is a tale of human obsession, one intrepid tuna, the dedicated fisherman who caught and set her free, the promises and limits of ocean science and the big truth of how our insatiable appetite for bluefin transformed a cottage industry into a global...
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    How to Grow the Flowers
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    How to Grow the Flowers

    Growing flowers to cut and enjoy at home can sharpen our awareness of the world around us and make us more attuned to nature. We find it impossible to walk anywhere without spotting a prized rose in a front garden, a brassica gone to seed on a...
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    Fletchers on the Farm
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    Fletchers on the Farm

    ‘We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm! A reluctant wife, a couple of crazy kids and a husband whose knowledge of farming you could write on the back of a stamp… What could go wrong?!’ – Kelvin‘Exactly! And the journey has only just begun…’ –...
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    Adventures of a Country Vet
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    Adventures of a Country Vet

    Funny and heartwarming stories from a Northland country vet In the rolling green hills of Kaipara, Scottish vet Rory Dean and his two fox terriers, Scrappy and Alfie, are on call day and night for whichever animal emergency awaits.In Adventures of a...
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    Wine, Terroir and Climate Change Wine, Terroir and Climate Change
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    Wine, Terroir and Climate Change

    This book is a scientific analysis of the soil and climatic factors affecting wine grape production, and thus, ultimately, wine itself. It provides a reasoned basis for the term 'terroir', and critically examines the science of climate change and...
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    Cultivating Community
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    Cultivating Community

    In the face of escalating water scarcity, effective water management has become a central concern globally. The MurrayDarling Basin, spanning over a million square kilometres across four states and one territory, is a lifeline for Australian agriculture...
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    Meatsplaining
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    Meatsplaining

    The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny and uses a distinct set of rhetorical strategies to deflect criticism. These tactics are fundamental to modern animal...
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    Harmful Australian Marine Microalgae
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    Harmful Australian Marine Microalgae

    Algal blooms have the potential to wipe out fish farms virtually overnight. Contamination of seafoods with algal toxins can poison human consumers of fish and shellfish. During the past two decades, globally there have been significant increases in...
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    Tasmanian Mayflies
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    Tasmanian Mayflies

    Mayflies are one of the world's most diverse, abundant and important aquatic insects. Famous for their brief adult life spans, mayflies play a key role in the ecology of aquatic and associated terrestrial ecosystems, and are critical...
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    Community-based Control of Invasive Species
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    Community-based Control of Invasive Species

    Invasive species are among the greatest challenges to environmental sustainability and agricultural productivity in the world. One of the most promising approaches to managing invasive species is voluntary citizen stewardship. However, in order for...
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    Insects of Stored Grain

    This handy pocket guide allows the non-specialist to identify major insect and arachnid pests found in stored cereal grains, grain products and grain legumes. It describes most storage pests found worldwide rather than concentrating on Australia and...
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    Ecoagriculture for a Sustainable Food Future

    Global food security is dependent on ecologically viable production systems, but current agricultural practices are often at odds with environmental sustainability. Resolving this disparity is a huge task, but there is much that can be learned from...
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    Farming Meat Goats
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    Farming Meat Goats

    Goat meat is growing in popularity in Australia and is also an important export industry. It offers many opportunities for large- and small-scale farmers who need to diversify or seek alternative enterprises. Farming Meat Goats provides producers with...
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    A Guide to Native Bees of Australia
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    A Guide to Native Bees of Australia

    Winner of the 2019 Whitley Award for Illustrated Guide A Guide to Native Bees of Australia provides a detailed introduction to the estimated 2000 species of Australian bees. Illustrated with stunning photographs, it describes the form and function...
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    Tree Faller's Manual
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    Tree Faller's Manual

    The Tree Faller's Manual is an essential handbook for forest operators and others who need to fell trees manually using a hand-held chainsaw. Tree felling is a high risk activity. Many fatalities and serious injuries have occurred as a result of being...
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    Gardening Down Under
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    Gardening Down Under

    This fully revised edition of Kevin Handreck's classic best-seller contains a wealth of information for practical gardeners. It will enable you to improve the worst of soils, choose the best fertiliser for particular plants and minimise water use. It...
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    Urban Beekeeping Urban Beekeeping
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    Urban Beekeeping

    An instruction manual for change, Urban Beekeeping explores how we can adapt urban spaces to create a more sustainable future, both for bees and for ourselves. Urban beekeeping has become a booming pastime in cities throughout the world. But why just fit...
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    Manuka
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    Manuka

    Not so long ago, in a small island nation in the South Pacific, beekeepers produced a most peculiar honey. It was much darker than the clover honey everyone put on their toast in the morning, and it tasted very different. In fact, the honey was a...
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    Pigology: 1000 Piece Puzzle Pigology: 1000 Piece Puzzle
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    Pigology: 1000 Piece Puzzle

    This delightful 1000-piece illustrated puzzle features over 60 colorful, playful pigs in a lively barnyard. A perfect gift for animal lovers, farmers, and nature lovers, this puzzle will make you go hog wild for this charming farm scene. What's...
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    At the Farmer’s Market At the Farmer’s Market
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    At the Farmer’s Market

    This vivid 1000-piece puzzle features a whimsical seasonal farmers' market, depicting oversized, colorful produce and a rich diversity of farmers and customers with layers of activity to discover.With bustling activity, large sections of bright colors,...
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    Fish Butchery
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    Fish Butchery

    WINNER OF THE 2024 JAMES BEARD AWARD FOR RESTAURANT AND PROFESSIONAL BOOK OF THE YEARJames Beard award-winning author and culinary game-changer Josh Niland returns with the ultimate guide to the art of Fish Butchery, with expert techniques and...
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    Foodtopia
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    Foodtopia

    "Insightful...empathetic...a thoughtful consideration of a topic that will have a substantial impact on our future."-BooklistReadable Feast, Book Award Winner for Socially Conscious Writing * Civil Eats' Food and Farming Book PickEver wonder if there's a...
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    Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture
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    Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture

    A synthesis of more than three decades of interdisciplinary research and practice, Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: An Evidence-based Guide to Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change, provides evidence-based solutions to...
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    Growing Wonder
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    Growing Wonder

    Do you dream of possessing a magical rose garden or a thriving flower farm? Whether you long to fill your own acreage with roses or consider yourself more of a weekend gardener, Menagerie Farm & Flower's Felicia Alvarez can help make your...
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    Dolia
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    Dolia

    The story of the Roman Empire's enormous wine industry told through the remarkable ceramic storage and shipping containers that made it possibleThe average resident of ancient Rome drank two-hundred-and-fifty liters of wine a year, almost a bottle a day,...
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    Douglas Lake Ranch
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    Douglas Lake Ranch

    Explore the rich history of Canada's largest ranch.Douglas Lake is the largest ranch in Canada, encompassing over one million acres of BC's south-central interior, and thousands of people have worked there since it was founded in the mid 1880s. Douglas...
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    Under the Henfluence
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    Under the Henfluence

    An immersive blend of chicken-keeping memoir and culture reporting by a journalist who accidentally became obsessed with her flock.Since first domesticating the chicken thousands of years ago, humans have become exceptionally adept at raising them for...
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    The Farmer's Office, Second Edition
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    The Farmer's Office, Second Edition

    The no-nonsense, practical guide for farm-preneurs to grow a successful farm business - completely revised and updated.You launched your farm because you love working the land and producing food. Yet to succeed you also need to think like an entrepreneur...
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    The Winter Market Gardener
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    The Winter Market Gardener

    Profitable winter market gardening - the complete practical guide to growing vegetables year-round in northern climates for local markets.Many small farms shut down during the dark winter months. Yet with the right techniques, equipment and cultivars,...
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    Voices of the Forest
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    Voices of the Forest

    The creation of large new tracts of forest, together with the development of a modern wood processing sector, was the single biggest transformation to occur in the Scottish countryside during the twentieth century. While the environmental and landscape...
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    Gather & Nourish
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    Gather & Nourish

    Meet the makers as Gather & Nourish offers an aromatic insight into the motivations and challenges of artisan food producers.Food is not just a way to fill our stomachs but is representative of the culture and time we live in. It tells a...
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    A Scurry of Squirrels
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    A Scurry of Squirrels

    Polly Pullar has had a passion for red squirrels since childhood. As a wildlife rehabilitator, she knows the squirrel on a profoundly personal level and has hand-reared numerous litters of orphan kits, eventually returning them to the wild.In this book...
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  • Isolation Shepherd
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    Isolation Shepherd

    In August 1956 a young shepherd, his wife, two-year-old daughter and ten-day-old son sat huddled in a small boat on Loch Monar in Ross-shire as a storm raged around them. They were bound for a tiny, remote cottage at the western end of the loch which was...
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    Taming Fruit
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    Taming Fruit

    For readers of Michael Pollan's The Botany of Desire and Mark Kurlansky's Salt.The story of orchards is a human story. It is also a story of how humans have bent and shaped nature to our tastes and desires for millennia.In Taming Fruit, award-winning...
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    Feeding Istanbul
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    Feeding Istanbul

    How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign's duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually...
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    The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals
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    The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals

    Imagine putting together a big breakfast using eggs straight from your own chickens and bacon from the pig. This is an ideal that many dream of but few ever get to experience. Now, with The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals, that dream can become a...
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    Heirloom Fruits of America

    Heirloom Fruits of America features 100 full-color illustrations selected from the U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection, an archive of 7,584 paintings, lithographs, and line drawings created from 1886 to 1942 by about...
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    Brave and Loyal
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    Brave and Loyal

    Learn about the brave dogs who help guard livestock around the world!Wolf populations in the Rocky Mountains have reached recovery goals due in large part to an environmentally friendly method of predator control now in use on western ranches: livestock...
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    The Monsanto Papers
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    The Monsanto Papers

    A David and Goliath battle for truthA specialist in GM foods and pesticides, the biologist Gilles-ric Seralini has studied their toxicity and effects on people's health for many years. In September 2012, for the first time in a major scientific journal...
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    50 Do-It-Yourself Projects for Keeping Goats
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    50 Do-It-Yourself Projects for Keeping Goats

    Build Fences, Make Goat Milk Soap, Create Goat Play Structures, and Much More!Get ready to jump into the world of goats, one DIY project at a time. Owning and raising goats doesn't have to be an expensive venture. With imagination, simple tools, and...
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    The Joy of Keeping Goats
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    The Joy of Keeping Goats

    What's not to love about goats? They will feed you, clean up the overgrown mess in the fields, and take long hikes with you while carrying your supplies. They will make you laugh when you're sad, provide extra income for even the smallest farm, carry you...
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    Homesteading From Scratch
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    Homesteading From Scratch

    Homesteading From Scratch is for people who want to do things differently-the type of people who want to eat real food, grow herbs, make cheese, raise baby animals, hunt mushrooms, pick blackberries, unschool their children, can jelly, ferment kraut,...
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    Fresh Eggs Daily

    More than ever, Americans care about the quality and safety of the food they eat. They're bringing back an American tradition: raising their own backyard chickens for eggs and companionship. And they care about the quality of life of their chickens...
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    The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook
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    The Two-Wheel Tractor Handbook

    Small but mighty - a comprehensive guide to the use of two-wheel tractors for highly productive gardens, landscapes, and farms TWO-WHEEL TRACTORS are multifunctional, economical, practical, maneuverable, portable, and low impact. Yet choosing the...
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    Plant Science for Gardeners
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    Plant Science for Gardeners

    A little plant science grows a long way Plant Science for Gardeners empowers growers to analyze common problems, find solutions, and make better decisions in the garden for optimal plant health and productivity.Most gardeners learn by accumulating rules...
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    Coppice Agroforestry
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    Coppice Agroforestry

    Cut and come again forestry reviving the ancient practice of resprout silviculture to power local woodland-based economies.Coppice Agroforestry is a richly illustrated, comprehensive guide to resprout silviculture managing trees and shrubs by coppicing,...
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