BOOKS

2012 CALENDAR

Gardening by the Moon

Astrological & Gardening Calendar

Lisa Corston Buddle and Cindy Alger

$22.00

ORGANIC GARDENING

The Koanga Garden Guide

Kay Baxter

Price: $59.90

The definitive gardening companion for the NZ Gardener.

Month by month in the garden, how to begin, soil health, pest control without chemicals, a section on orchards and a beautiful colour section with photos of Kay's gardens at Koanga and Kohatu Toa, as well as the new community gardens at Whitianga Bay. Highly recommended.

This book replaces 'What's Happening - How to manage your permaculture home garden / orchard month by month'.

Organic Futures - The case for organic farming

$46.00

Adrian Myers. A comprehensive argument for the inevitability of a return to organic and sustainable farming methods. Presents an overwhelming case for replacing modern farming methods, based on chemical fertilisers and pest control, with organic tehniques. Explores the history, politics and practicalities of organic farming. Based on extensive research and practical experience.

Four Season Harvest

$61.50

Eliot Coleman. Four Season Harvest introduced readers to

Eliot Coleman's simple, efficient system for growing and harvesting vegetables throughout the year, no matter what the climate. This revised and expanded edition describes the continuing evolution and perfection of the winter gardening concept. The simple crop protection and storage schemes that Coleman has developed enable any home gardener in similar latitude to enjoy fresh food all year round. This is an excellent book, Eliot Coleman uses bio-intensive principles, and hand tools and presents his information beautifully.

The New Organic Grower

$61.50

Eliot Coleman - Second edition.New chapters on generating increased fertility within your garden without the use of expensive additives. Using adaptable easy to build tunnels for season extending, and commercialising a winter garden it also has a fully revised chapter on pest management and a comprehensive bibliography.

Growing Great Garlic

$37.90

Ron L. Engeland. The Definitive Guide for Organic Gardner's and Small Farmers.

Growing Great Garlic is the definitive growers guide written by small-scale farmer who makes his living growing over 200 strains of garlic. Commercial growers will want to consult the book regularly. Topics covered include: which strains to plant, when and how to plant, when to fertilize, when to prune and harvest, how to store, market and process the crop.

Solviva

$72.00

Anna Edey. One woman's vision and commitment to learning to live sustainably and in harmony. In 1976 she made one astonishing discovery after another, developing incredible green house designs that would be called Sustainable Solar-Dynamic Bio-Benign designs. Put into practice her ideas turned out to be highly productive, economical and simple. Inspirational and beautifully presented. Full of designs - and photos of her own greenhouse.

How to Grow More Vegetables

$52.00

John Jeavons. Bio-intensive gardening is about growing soil, taking care of the earth and in the process we find we are also taking care of ourselves. How To Grow More Vegetables details the farming method which can result in 800 square feet (the size of an average front lawn) or less providing a family of four with all their fresh vegetables - produced organically while maintaining soil nutrients for future crops, with a minimum of water and daily care needed - for an entire year. If you're seriously looking at growing all your own food using hand methods this book is a must.

The Sustainable Vegetable Garden

$36.50

John Jeavons & Carol Cox. This is an introduction to Bio-intensive Gardening. It is the best book for real beginners looking to make a start towards sustainable self-reliance. It is a totally inspiring, convincing, easy to read and easy to follow excellent book, same author as 'How To Grow More Vegetables'.

Seed to Seed

$61.50

Suzanne Ashworth. The book that Kay recommends above all others for seed savers. Everything you need to know in order to save your own vegetable seeds is in this book, in a very easy to read and understand form. Excellent information, diagrams and presentation. It has been my bible in the garden for many years, answering the questions that are left unanswered. This is the best book available in the world, it is excellent.

Pest Repellent Plants

$22.50

Penny Woodward. Another extremely popular book with our members. The best book on which plants do what, how to use them, where to plant them, etc. Every possible pest is covered, with a plant(s) that will grow in your garden. Excellent information, spray recipes and illustrations.

Gardening With Earthworms

$39.90

John Stemmer. A manual for New Zealanders. 'When it comes to Earthworms there can't be may New Zealanders that know more about them than John Stemmer. He gives a description of the different Earthworms, and then gives instruction on how to build a worm box and supplying suitable bedding materials as well as the feeding habits of the hopefully comfortable inhabitants. He then moves into the principles of home recycling systems.

Companion Planting

$28.50

Brenda Little. Entertaining and often anecdotal, Brenda Little's notes are inspired by a wealth of experience and common sense. This book offers the reader a gardening system relying completely on observation of the natural ecosystem and a respect for the plants and animals living there.

Bees and Honey

$46.50

Michael Weller. Weller draws on his 25 years of bee-keeping experience to take the reader through all aspects of the life and work of the bee colony, visually describing their remarkable world. A great reference for anyone interested in bees and bee keeping using natural methods, not just manipulating them. At this time when bee colonies throughout the world are collapsing and populations dwindling, we need books such as this to help us better understand them.

This Organic Life

$38.90  N/A

Joan Dye Gussow. CONFESSIONS OF A SUBURBAN HOMESTEADER

In sharing her ponderings the author sets a delightful example for those who seed the healthiest, most pleasurable lifestyle within an environment determined to propel us in the opposite direction. Joan is a suburbanite with a green thumb, but also a feisty, definat spirit with a relentlessly positive outlook. At the heart of the book is the premise that locally grown organic food, eaten in season, makes sense economically, ecologically and gastronomically.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

$39.90   N/A

Barbara Kingsolver with Steven L Hopp and Camille Kingsolver.

Author of 'Prodigal Summer' and 'Poisonwood Bible', Kingsolver chronicles a year of back to the land living with her family in Appalachia. Their vow is to buy only food raised in their own neighbourhood, to grow it themselves or learn to live without it.

SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE

Nourishment Home Grown.

$89.90  N/A

A. F. Beddoe. This book will tell you how to feed your plants, how to measure the

nourishment levels in the food you eat and will answer basic and advanced gardening

questions. Frequently references the work of Dr Carey Reams (1903 - 1985) who made

many discoveries in the fields of human health, plant growth, energetics, animal health and soil restoration.

Foundations of Natural Farming

Understanding Core Concepts of Ecological Agriculture.

$89.50

Harold Willis. Long time ecological farming author / researcher Harold Willis doesn't

stop at providing recipes for what farmers need to do to farm better, but passes along

an in depth understanding of ecological agriculture. He uses terminology that not only

makes the subject easy to learn, but also brings it vibrantly alive.

Kay believes this book will become a classic for those seriously committed to

clean farming and gardening.

The Anatomy of Life and Energy in Agriculture

$35.50

Dr Arden Andersen. It is possible to develop food production practices that are both high quality and non-destructive. Since high sugar and mineral levels aid plants in deterring bacterial, insect and fungal attack, a complete Brix chart on crops is included.

This book outlines in detail the difference between deadly slow-kill agribusiness farming and farming as it should be.

Science in Agriculture

ADVANCED METHODS FOR SUSTAINABLE FARMING

81.50

Dr Arden Andersen. A sophisticated, professional farming system designed to enhance the biological activity in the soil, provide energy to the crop and build internal resistance to pests and diseases.

This includes: Applying true, natural science; an outline of the major schools of thought which form the foundation of eco-agriculture; how to gain a working knowledge of chemistry, physics and plant biology as applied to agriculture; how to master testing and evaluation methods needed; how to tell what weeds are telling you about your soil's fertility needs and how to implement a programme to produce crops, turf and pastures with balanced nutritional and mineral content.

PERMACULTURE

The Permaculture Home Garden

$51.50

Linda Woodrow. This book will become a classic. If you've got flat land, light soils (not heavy clay) and you love chooks, this book might be just what you want. Linda is a super-experienced gardener and Permaculture teacher & designer. She shows you how to set your garden up. Every detail is there- totally practical and loads of fun. I've seen people follow her instructions to create wonderful gardens that work.

Permaculture: Principles & Pathways beyond Sustainability

$56.50

David Holgrem. With Bill Molleson, David Holgrem is the co-creator of the term 'Permaculture', and together they wrote the original manual: Permaculture One. Twenty five years on this is a timely and comprehensive synthesis that brings Permaculture Principles together in an exciting new way. The book highlights our place in this unique moment in history, at the peak of the global oil production curve. It positions Permaculture as a strategy for coping with energy descent.

'Beyone Sustainability' is a well-established insight of Permaculture that sustainability is not enough. In a world that is already degraded we need to achieve an excess of yield that we can feed back into restoration.

The Permaculture Way

PRACTICAL STEPS TO CREATE A SELF-SUSTAINING WORLD

$70.50

Graham Bell: Permaculture makes maximum use of resources by minimising waste and maximising potential. It is a tool for planet repair.

Put in its simplest terms, Permaculture asks people to put as much into life as they demand of it. It starts with each individual because that is what is immediate and within our control. It starts in the home because that is the central point from which all our daily occupations radiate. If we could each design our won homes to supply as much of its own needs as possible, and to consume its own outputs, this would be a massive contribution to global cleansing. Here are some ideas about how each of us can achieve this, step by step.

ORCHARDS

Design Your Own Orchard

New Revised Edition

$37.50

Kay Baxter. Bringing Permaculture Design to the ground in Aotearoa.

If you want to do a good job of planting your home orchard, this is the book you need. Written for New Zealand conditions it covers everything you need to know - from the theory of Permaculture design to all the details, practical decisions and questions. Some of the charts are specific to the Auckland, Northland Bioregion but the book can be used for anywhere in the world.

This new revised edition includes up-to-date information about soil in particular.

The Backyard Berry Book

$37.90

Otio. Hands on guide to growing Berries, Brambles, and Vine Fruit in the Home Garden. These fruits require specific growing conditions and management techniques and this book a great help if you are thinking of putting in a Berry patch.

The Scythe Book

$56.50

David Tresemer - Second Edition. Mowing hay, cutting weeds, and harvesting grains with small hand tools. Tresemer's Scythe Book is a well-written, valuable and appreciated resource. A "must have" book for anyone who desires to perfect their use in maintenance and understanding of the scythe.

The Apple Grower

$86.90

A guide for the organic Orchardist by Michael Phillips. Michael Phillips grows apples successfully using no artificial pesticides or fertilizers. His method combines the half- forgotten wisdom of a century ago, when all fruit was grown organically, with the latest scientific knowledge about pests that can plague apples and other tree fruits. Commercial orchardists and organic farmers, as well as backyard gardeners with several fruit trees, will glean invaluable ideas andadvise from this book.

The Grape Grower

$87.00

Lon Rombourgh. From the tropics to Alaska, grapes will grow successfully in almost every climate. Whether you raise them for fresh eating, or making wine, juice or preserves, the right grapes will reward you with abundant crops for a modest investment of time and effort. Now for the first time comes a book for grape growers who wish to use organic growing methods to raise healthy, thriving vineyards in the backyard or on a small commercial scale. From finding and preparing the right site for your vineyard to training, trellising and pruning vines to growing new grapes from seeds and cuttings, The Grape Grower offers thorough and accessible information on all the basics.

How to Prune

TIPS AND TECHNIQUES FOR EVERY PLANT AND SEASON

$50.00  N/A

John Cushnie . John Cushnie has been pruning plants for many years. With the help of

specially comissioned step-by-step photography he now draws in these decades of hands on experience to guide readers through techniques that will improve the quality and yield of fruit, flowers and foliage. A beautifully presented manual.

WOODLOTS

The Woodland Way

$61.50

A Permaculture Approach to Sustainable Woodland Management - by Ben Law.

Ben Law is an experienced and innovative woodsman with a deep commitment to practical sustainability. Here he presents a radical alternative to conventional woodland management that creates a biodiverse, healthy environments, yields a greater variety of value-added products, provides a secure livelihood for woodland workers and farmers, and benefits the local community. This brilliant book covers every aspect of woodland stewardship from both a practical and philosophical viewpoint.

Living Wood

$70.50 

From buying a wood to making a chair by Mike Abbott. Illustrated by Tamsin Abbott.

Mike Abbott is probably the best known of the new generation of pole-lathe turners and green woodworkers in the UK and has contributed considerably to its renaissance over the last 20 years. John Aiken, Koanga's Green Woodwork Tutor, attended a course with Mike back in 1989 shortly after he had published Green Woodwork, his first book. Many books claim to be a practical guide to a craft but this is one of very few which you could put down after reading, and launch straight into work! Green Woodwork has for many years been the bible of green woodworkers in Britain. Living Wood is Mike's second book and is informed by two decades of practice and the teaching of literally thousands of students. It includes much of the practical information from Green Woodwork as well as a fascinating autobiographical section charting Mike's progress into pole-lathe turning and woodland ownership. The book is highly readable with an anecdotal style and stuffed full of practical knowledge. John'sown copy is extremely well thumbed as he keeps referring back to it again and again!!

FAIR TRADE

Fighting the Banana Wars

AND OTHER FAIR TRADE BATTLES

$56.50

Harriet Lamb: This book answers the basic questions about Fair Trade - what does it really mean and what effect has the Fair Trade movement had on the global economy. It offers a history of the movement, an analysis of its philosophy and an update on the people involved in it, including producers as well as organisers.

There is something compelling about well-written personal stories, they can help us look behind the politics. This helps us to realise that by buying Fair Trade products we can each play a small part in making a difference.

TRANSITION

The Transition Town Handbook

FROM OIL DEPENDENCY TO LOCAL RESILIENCE

$51.50

Rob Hopkins: The author shows the way towards planned change in communities that will accommodate a lower energy future. While the hard facts are given, Hopkins vision for what is to come is positive, suggesting that we may in fact be better off once we're out of the consumer era. He suggest that re-localisation is imperative and that our communities will be simpler, co-operative, move enviromentally aware and sustainable.

HEALTH AND NUTRITION

The Body Ecology Diet             

Recovering Your Health and Rebuilding Your Immunity

$54.90

by Donna Gates with Linda Schatz

A must read for anyone who wants to be healthy or

who is exhausted, overweight or has digestive problems, candida, viral infections, cancer or neurological disorders such as ADD, Autism, Alzheimers or Multiple Sclerosis.

In this book, Donna Gates synthesises information from many sources and points of view, including modern medical science, Chinese Medicine, naturopathy and her own personal study, observation and experience.

Kefir - For pleasure, beauty and well being.

$15.50

Harald W. Tietze

Kefir is a living relationship, a symbiosis of a number of bacteria and yeast which form grains or cauliflower-like structures. These living organisms ferment milk into the living food Kefir.

Kefir grains are a biological production centre. Living foods like Kefir help to detoxify, support and balance digestion, and help in building up the immune system to counteract negative influences. During the fermentation process the Kefir grains change normal milk inot the Kefir beverage. This microgiological living food Kefire can be very helpful in regenerating the bowel flora and works in this way, in many cases like a wonder!

An informative manual with the history of Kefir and recipes.

Change of Heart

$46.50

Kay Baxter and Bob Corker. This book is about re-creating 'culture', about getting back into relationship with our bodies and our environment. It is about nourishing food, about the internal as much as the external. This is a very exciting journey. Includes over 400 recipes and weaves together all the informational threads from Weston A. Price, Sally Fallon and Arden Anderson. An outstanding book.

Nourishing Traditions

$75.00

Sally Fallon. Kay loves this book! Sally Fallon has devoted her life to health, nutrition and food, partly through studying the works of Western A. Price who did research early last century all around the world, looking at the diets and health of indigenous people. the results were very clear. Sally talks about that and further research. She contends that we are missing some of the keys to good health and that we need to address the issue urgently. Traditional cultures ate far more nutrient dense food than we do - and had better health. Evidence is presented to show that traditional societies made regular use of fermented food, nutrient dense bone broths, animal fats, cultured, unpasteurised dairy products and that we need to l,ook farm more carefully at traditional ways that worked rather than new fads which may not have stood the test of time.

The book is huge and packed with information and recipes.

Eat Fat Lose Fat

$42.50

Mary Enig and Sally Fallon: Based on more than two decades of research, Eat Fat Lose Fat flouts conventional 'wisdom' by revealing that so called healthy vegetable oils such as corn and soybean are in large part responsible for the obesity crisis, while saturated fats from coconut, butter and meat, considered harmful, are essential to weight loss and health. University case studies reveal faulty reasoning behind the saturated fat / cholesterol / heart disease hypothesis.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

$73.90

Weston A. Price: It is from this research that Sally Fallon bases much of her work. A shocking and powerful testament to the adverse effects of modern processed diets upon health. Dr Weston Price was one of the most prominent health researchers of the 20th century. For nearly ten years he and his wife travelled to 14 countries and investigated some of the most remote areas of the world. He observed minimal tooth decay and overall excellent health in those groups who ate their indigenous foods. He found that when these people were introduced to modern foods like white flour, sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. If you love Nourishing Traditions and want to go deeper, you'll relish this amazing book.

The Omnivore's Dilemma

A Natural History of Four Meals

$39.50  N/A

Michael Pollan. A detailed explanation of exactly where supermarket 'food' comes from, tracing it as far as possible from the farm to the shelf. Contains a fascinating history of corn and how it came to be so prevalent in so many products. Well written with a humorous,

cynical edge.

In Defense of Food - An Eaters Manifesto

$36.70

Michael Pollan. ' Food. There's plenty of it around and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?' Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simply but liberating words. 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'

Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, discusses how the rules around what we 'should' be eating have changed and changed again as we are manipulated by the a manipulative, industrialised food industry that is no longer benevolent. An excellent overview.

Sugar Blues

$27.90

William Duffy. The book that cured millions of the sugar blues. A hard hitting and

relentless report on this prime ingredient found in so many of today's food products.

Pesticides and Breast Cancer

A WAKE UP CALL

$33.00

Dr Meriel Watts PhD: NZ has one of the highest incidence rates of breast cancer in the world. Meriel Watts, a scientist with Pesticide Action Network Asia and Pacific, provides a compelling argument for preventing exposure of women and girls to many of today's commonly used pesticides. It is time for a systemic change in our attitudes to pesticides.

For those of you sick of hearing that Round Up is no more toxic than table salt!

Healing Wise

$52.00

Susun S. Weed. All of Susan Weed's books are hugely inspirational, grounded and easy to follow. If you're into taking responsibility for your own and your family's health, using themedicine chest in your own garden, then these are the books for you. I've used all three of them for many years - my children knew virtually nothing else, other than these remedies. Healing Wise covers the basic range of illnesses and pains of childhood and adulthood.

Childbearing Year

$39.50

Susun S. Weed "The major focus of my work is to teach ordinary people that they can heal and maintain health themselves by using common plants (weeds), compassionate

intuition, and simple ritual. This is the healing tradition of Wise Women, the oldest healing tradition on earth. Taking nothing for granted or gospel, I began to study herbal medicine twenty years ago". This book, the first of a series, flows out of my accumulated experiences using and teaching about herbal medicines.

Menopausal Years

$39.50

Susun S. Weed. Susun Weed spent 13 years talking with more than 50,000 women about menopause. Here are the remedies, the wisdom, and the humour she found. This book is for every woman over 35. It brings together all the dimensions of the Change, from meditations and quick fixes for hot flushes to safe, natural ways to keep your mood cool, your heart healthy and your bones strong.

Weeds Heal

$55.00

Isla Burgess. Isla is the founding director of Waikato Centre for Herbal Studies in Cambridge, a teaching centre dedicated to training Medicinal Herbalists. Isla believes that the wise use of plants as medicine requires both an intimate connection with the plants as well as a detailed knowledge of current validation for their use. Her book covers fourteen weeds in depth which are analysed in terms of the 'doctrine of signatures', a visual key to their properties where emphasis is placed on smell, taste, feel and the chakra system of colours. Isla gives information on the medical constituents of the plants and on how to make preparations.

Mothering with Soul

$39.90

Joan Salter. Bringing up children is important work and the author helps you to choose to be a full time mother or father if you wish to be. Women share their experiences. This career of the heart can be seen as a soulful and spiritual job and there are sections on expecting, birthing, mothering, breastfeeding and the rhythms of the day and the growth of love.

Materia Medica of Western Herbs: NEW EDITION

$125.00

Carole Fisher. This is a goldmine of easily accessible information on every herb that you'll find in New Zealand. It covers every aspect you could ever expect to need, from identifying herbs, propagating them, how they are used and for what, traditional uses and modern research. There are several indexes depending on how you wish to use the book. A must for every serious home herbalist.

COOKBOOKS

Change of Heart

$46.50

Kay Baxter and Bob Corker. This book is about re-creating 'culture', about getting back into relationship with our bodies and our environment. It is about nourishing food, about the internal as much as the external. This is a very exciting journey. Includes over 400 recipes.

Body & Soul

$28.90

Trish Allen, Kay Baxter, Sabine Drueckler, Wendy Klink. The recipes in this book have been gifted to Koanga by four women who garden, cook and feed their families with these recipes; four women who are committed to the slow food revolution and who are constantly being asked for recipes. The 252 recipes focus on simple unprocessed food, organic food, seasonal food, home grown food and food that nourishes our minds, bodies and souls. It is a wonderful cookbook that covers how to make your own herbal remedies, soups, vege dishes, mains, desserts, baking, preserving and pickling.

Slow Food

$68.90

Edited by Carlo Petrini. Collected Thoughts on taste, tradition and the Honest Pleasures of food. Remeber the days of the dot.com explosion when the only commodity that wasn't in short supply was time? Time to relax and reflect, time to cook well, eat well, and live the life of sustainable hedonism. Today we pound down our big macs and fries as we check our e-mail, at the expense of true nourishment for our bodies and our souls. Enough! Says Carlo Petrini, the founder of slow food International. Bring back the pleasures of the palate, and return the humanity to food. Slow food is an anthology for cooks, gourmets and anyone who is passionate about food and its impact on our culture. It includes more than a hundred articles contributed by some of the worlds top food writers, and offers a clear alternative to "the fast food nation".

Food Wise

$61.50

Wendy E. Cook. Through her daughters illness, Wendy Cook began to study the deep aspects of nutrition and particularly the effects of different foods on human health and consciousness. A cornucopia of ideas, advice and commentary, informed by the work of Rudolph Steiner. Includes the significance of grasses and grains, human digestion and the question of vegetarianism.

Home Sausage Making

$46.50

Susan Mahnke Peery & Charles G Reavis. 100 Recipes for sausages and 50 recipes for cooking with sausage, are written for the contemporary tastes. If you're killing your own meat then there are always cuts that are best made into sausages. Home made sausages taste nothing like the bought ones, contain no fillers or chemicals, and there are endless variations possible. You can make them to our own taste! (See the tools section for sausage stuffers!)

Home Cheese Making

$46.50

Ricki Carroll: After mastering the fine art of cheese making in England, Ricki Carroll opened 'New England Cheesemaking Supply Company in Massachusetts. Since 1978 her company has supplied home cheese makers with information and equipment. This is the third edition of this classic reference. Includes 75 recipes for cheese and 60 recipes fro clling with cheese. Plus tips from cheese makers and lots of 'cheesy lore'.

Grain Power

$22.90

Sabine Drueckler. Sabine has written this book especially to inspire and show us how to cook whole unprocessed grains for our health, and the health of our families. She focuses on using those grains that we can grow our selves including amaranth, quinoa, flour corn as well as dinkel and rye. She is a beautiful cook, and her recipes will become standby favourites.

Wild Fermentation

$61.50

Sandor Ellix Katz. Take a whirlwind trip through the wild world of fermented and live culture cuisine! These vital foods - at the forefront of the 'food as nutrition' movement provide incredible health benefits and are delicious as well as easy to make.

ANIMALS

The Chook Book

$25.00

Jackie French. By popular demand we have brought this book over. Jackie is a well-known Australian author, renowned for being down to earth and fun and, in this book, covering all the basics of keeping chickens at home. She uses easy to understand language and easy to find equipment etc. Excellent book.

Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable

$53.50

Juliette de Baraclii-Levy.  If you are growing your own food and making your own medicine from the herbs and weeds in the garden it is only natural you'll want to take care of your animals in the same energy. Juliette de Baraclii-Levi is a world-renowned teacher and writer in this field. This is the best book available. The more I use this book the better I think it is. She is a master, she opens up a whole new world that is wonderful to see and walk into.

Natural Goat Care

$56.30

Pat Coleby. Goats thrive on fully organic natural care. As natural browsers they have higher mineral requirements than other domestic animals, so diet is a critical element

to maintaining optimal livestock health. Coleby draws upon years of experience raising and treating top-notch animals to explain alternative farming and husbandry techniques.

Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks

$49.90

by Dave Holderread.  (New edition - been expanded by 128 pages) Ducks are the homeowner's best friends. They will eat beetles, grasshoppers, snails, slugs and mosquitoes, clean unwanted plants from ponds and lakes, produce an abundance of nitrogen-rich manure, provide you with eggs and meat. This book shows you how to get started, how many ducks you need for your situation, which breeds are most suitable, how to rear ducklings and manage adults it is the best specialist duck book around. It's fantastic!

Storey's Guide To Raising Chickens

Care / Feeding / Facilities

$49.90

Gail Damerow: Everything you need to know to raise one chicken or one hundred. From starting your own backyard flock to putting eggs on the table this book gives you easy to understand advice on each step. Includes choosing the right breed, caring for chicks, building feeders and shelters, collecting and storing eggs and health maintenance.

CHILDREN

DVD FOR KIDS: Composting Kids.

From Rainbow Valley Farms

$26.00

Make Compost. Do Bokashi. Maintain a Wormfarm. An excellent DVD made by kids for kids.

Excellent for schools.

Feed Me Right

NUTRITIONAL KNOW-HOW AND BODY SCIENCE

$30.90

Dee Pigneguy and Tamarin Pigneguy: Feed Me Right presents the nuts and bolts of nutriton, leading the reader through a journey of discovery and an exploration of our body's relationship with food. It explains what happens to food the moment it slips past your lips til it plops out the other end. While the text is pitched to adolescents, the gorgeous, funky and numerous illustrations by Richard Gunther provide plenty of interest and talking points for kids from 6 up.

The Tiny Seed

$28.90

Eric Carle. Eric Carle is the author who wrote "The Hungry Caterpillar" He has a wonderful way with words -a delightful book for young ones aged 2 - 7.

The Story Of The Root Children

$20.50

Sibylle van olfers. This is a delightful story, with exquisite pictures, of the root children through all the seasons. Hard Cover Suitable for ages 2 - 7.

Earthwise

$50.50

Carol Petrash. Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children. Earthwise is filled with hands-on ature crafts and seasonal activities to enhance environmental awareness. The carefully described activities are graded in difficulty so that children will learn to play safely with the elements of earth, air, fire and water. The activities will help children develop a respect for nature and all living creatures and enable them to experience the world around them with awe and wonder.

Sunflower Houses

$39.90

Sharon Lovejoy. Celebrate the lore of the garden and the joys of interacting with nature with your children or your grandchildren This is a very special book, perfect for inspiring children to get out into the garden, its chock full of wonderful ideas like building a sunflower play hut, a clock garden with a different flower opening every hour of the 24!, making hollyhock dolls, and much more. This unique miscellany insures that the memorable outdoor experiences of childhood will be passed on from one generation to the next. Illustrating the book throughout are the author's warm and appealing watercolours of a life in gardening remembered.

Making Flower Children

$36.90

Sybille Adolphi. This book includes detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations for making a range of lively, creative flower figures. Many of the figures are recognizable form Elsa Beskow's popular picture books, and from Sybille von Olfer's The Story of the Root Children. Activities are organized by season, making the book ideal for decorating a nature corner or seasonal table in the home or classroom.

Earth Water Fire And Air

$33.75

Walter Kraul. Playful Explorations in the Four Elements. This book shows how to make a waterwheel, a paddlesteamer, propeller plane, parachute, windmill, spinning tops, a hot-airballoon, and lots more. Some suggestions are simple enough for six -year-olds, others challenging enough for a skilful twelveyear- old.

The Blessing Seed

$23.90

Caitlin Matthews and Alison Dexter.This beautiful transformation of the original Christian Creation story will inspire both adults and children. The dramatic illustrations celebrate the vitality and optimistic message of the text.

ECOLOGY

Ecological Aquaculture

$65.00

Lawrence Hutchinson. A practical and informative manuel for creating self-sustaining aquatic systems. It concentrates mainly on designing and developing natural food chains for most climates and regions. Essential reading for aquaculturists, farmers, land owners, rare breed and waste water specialists and planners. Full of ground breaking ideas.

ECO HOMES/BUILDING

The New Ecological Home

$88.00

A Complete Guide to Green Building Options by Daniel D Chiras. A new generation of architects and builders is emerging, intent on creating homes that meet human needs for shelter while causing only a fraction of the environmental impact of conventional housing. The New Ecological Home provides an overview of green building techniques, materials, products and technologies that are either currently available or will be in thenear future. Daniel Chiras provides a wealth of up-to-date, practical information for homebuyers, owner-builders, and anyone interested in building for a sustainable future. Included are chapters on:

 The Healthy House

 Green Building Materials

 Wood-Wise Construction

 Energy Efficiency

 Earth-Sheltered Architecture

 Passive Solar Heating and Passive Cooling

 Green Power: Electricity from the Sun and Wind

 Water and Waste: Sustainable Approaches

 Environmental Landscaping

The Natural House

$86.90

The Complete Guide to Healthy, Energy-Efficient, Environmental Homes - by Daniel D Chiras. The Natural House is a tour of the construction, costs and pros and cons of fourteen natural building methods. Straw Bale, Rammed Earth, Cob, Cordwood, Adobe, Earth bags..... whatever the method, the common goal is to create a house that is economical, energy-efficient, non-toxic, soothing to the soul, kind to the nvironment, and pleasing to behold. This comprehensive sourcebook offers in-depth information that will guide your search for the perfect sustainable dream home. It is a must for homebuilders, contractors and architects.

The Straw Bale House

$75.00

Swentzell-Steen, Steen, Bainbridge and Eisenberg

Imagine building a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance and thermal insulation using renewable resources for half the cost of a comparable conventional home. Welcome to the Straw Bale House!

The Solar House

Passive Heating and Cooling

$76.90

Daniel D. Chiras. While heat from sunlight and ventilation from breezes is free for the taking, few modern architects and builders really understand the principles involved.

Heating and cooling with passive solar techniques is a viable alternative to fossil fuels.

Landscaping Earth Ponds

$56.50

Tim Matson. Earth ponds are recognised for the full range of gardening, landscaping and ecological promise they hold. Tim Matson has designed scores of ponds, each unique to its site and owners. In this book he shares his valuable experience.

Build Your Own Earth Oven

$37.90

Kiko Denzer. A low-cost, wood fired mud oven: Build Your Own Earth Oven is essential book for those who want to do just that! This new edition is a clear and concise manual that covers with insight and inspiration all the details you need to know about materials and processes. Kiko Denzers gift is to bring together in one small book both the means to make an inexpensive oven, which will surely bake wonderful bread, and a gentle impassioned explanation of why it matters to do this.

ECOVILLAGES

Ecovillage Living

$68.60

Restoring the Earth and her People by Hildur Jackson and Karen Svensson.  Ecovillage Living is a guide to everything you've always wanted to know about ecovillages, from the tools to make them happen to the people behind them. If you have ever dreamed of natural housing, water treatment systems, solar panels, composting toilets... If you have wanted to work close to home, or have neighbours whom you know, live in a safe place for your children, or have a more harmonious lifestyle....If you're building a community and want to learn from others experiences.... this book is for you. It is an unprecedented 'how-to and why' account of ecovillage living, and a vibrant story of people spearheading a lifestyle which is rapidly growing into a new global culture.

Ecovillages

$71.90

A Practical Guide to Sustainable Communities by Jan Martin Bang.  The Ecovillage movement is a worldwide network of communities which aim to integrate as much as possible into the natural environment. Examples include kibbutz, Camphill communities, and others guided by frameworks such as Permaculture, which work with the land as a creative alternative to the wasteful and exploitative practices of mainstream society. This book explores the background and history to the Ecovillages movement, and goes onto provide a comprehensive manual for planning, establishing and maintaining a sustainable community. Issues discussed include leadership and conflict management, house design, building techniques, farming and food production, water, and sewage, energy sources and alternative economics. Throughout, the book is packed with handy tips, useful insights and sage advice. Theory is brought to life in a series of striking "Living Example" case studies around the world.

Creating a Life Together

79.90

Diana Leafe Christian.

Only 10% of intentional communities succeed. This book could change that. Before you form a group. raise money or bang in a nail - read this book. It is full of vital information and practical guidance, dozens of examples, cautionary tales and tested experience. Wise and well-written.

Living Legacies

$19.90 SPECIAL

Lynda Hannah. Living Legacies is an environmentally responsible and meaningful celebration of life. This handbook explains why low-cost, environmental funerals are healthier for your family and your planet, and how to arrange one without a funeral director. A gentle, thought-provoking book about living and dying which will inspire and empower you to make informed choices while you can. This is a fantastic book, written in New Zealand for New Zealander's. Every one should have this book!