Argiculture & Farming


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  • Cover scan of Conscious Food
    Conscious Food: Sustainable Growing, Spiritual Eating
    Jim PathFinder Ewing - Paperback - Findhorn
    Rooted firmly in eco-spirituality, this analysis and guide to reconnecting with edible nature focuses on how modern people can regain spirit in food individually and collectively. The author provides a background on the emergence of agriculture and the declining connection with food as society evolved, particularly during times of war, and scrutinises today's 'conventional' farming that relies upon deadly toxins and unsustainable fossil fuels.
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    Thistle Soup
    Peter Kerr - Paperback - Oasis-WERP
    This is an idiosyncratic story of Scottish farming life. It tells of episodes with drunken ghosts, bullocks in the bedrooms, obscure customs and country superstitions.
  • Cover scan of Koepf's Practical Biodynamics
    Koepf's Practical Biodynamics: Soil, Compost, Sprays And Food Quality
    Herbert H. Koepf - Paperback - Floris
    Herbert Koepf was a pioneer of biodynamics in Germany, the USA and in the UK. He was an expert teacher, and drew on his own practical background in farming. This is a collection of some of his writings on key aspects of biodynamics.
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    Common Sense Risk Management Of Trees: Guidance On Trees And Public Safety In The UK For Owners, Managers And Advisers
    - Paperback - Forestry Commission
    This document integrates and updates issues concerning trees and their management for human safety, bringing together concepts from several other national guidance documents.
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    Hebridean Sharker
    Tex Geddes - Paperback - Birlinn
    Tex Geddes describes his exploits during the 1950s as a hunter of basking sharks in the waters of the Minch - between the Inner and Outer Hebrides. A thrilling memoir, it includes never-before-seen photographs of the sharker and his majestic quarry.
  • Cover scan of Farming The Land
    Farming The Land: A Compendium Of Scottish Ethnology
    - Hardback - John Donald
    This volume explores a variety of topics on the broad theme of farming and the land in Scotland, from the medieval period to the present day. The chapters are divided into ten thematic sections. Some chapters look at developments within broad ethnological eras, while others focus on particular aspects of a theme.
  • Cover scan of The Development Of The Organic Network
    The Development Of The Organic Network: Linking People And Themes, 1945-95
    Philip Conford - Paperback - Floris
    Philip Conford continues the survey of the British organic movement which he began in 'The Origins of the Organic Movement'. This second volume covers the period from 1945 to the mid-1990s, by which point the movement was about to enjoy a much higher public profile than previously.
  • Cover scan of The Drove Roads Of Scotland
    The Drove Roads Of Scotland
    A. R. B. Haldane - Paperback - Birlinn
    Interweaving folklore, social comment and economic history, this work provides an account of Scotland's droving trade and the routes by which cattle and sheep were brought from every corner of the land to markets in central Scotland.
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    Cattle On A Thousand Hills: Farming Culture In The Highlands Of Scotland
    Katharine Stewart - Paperback - Luath
    An insightful, affectionate look at the often neglected role of cattle in shaping Highland life, from religious practices to cattle-raiding to cowboys.
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    The Biodynamic Farm: Developing A Holistic Organism
    Karl-Ernst Osthaus - Paperback - Floris
    This is a practical guide to developing a healthy, balanced and sutainable farm. The author, an experienced farmer, takes a down-to-earth approach. Based on an example farm of around 60 hectares, he recommends the ideal numbers of livestock.

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