Agriculture books can be found at the Sherwood Park Campus. These items are owned by SWTAFE and are not available for loan by the Warrnambool Library & Learning Centre. For questions about the collection, see your teacher or Sherwood Park Campus Customer Service.
Books related to your course can be found on Level 1 (link to map) in:
Browse the shelves at these call numbers:
| Agriculture | 630 |
| Horses | 636.1 |
| Soils/Composting | 631.4 |
| Weeds | 632.5 |
Australian Farming and Agriculture
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Agriculture makes an important contribution to all Australian consumers and to the national economy, exporting two thirds of total production. The face of Australian agriculture has changed over the past two centuries as farmers have developed resilience and adapted to environmental and economic trends.
Call of the Reed Warbler : a new agriculture : a new earth
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In this groundbreaking book Charles Massy explores regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health.
Country: future fire, future farming
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For millennia, Indigenous Australians harvested this continent in ways that can offer contemporary environmental and economic solutions. Bill Gammage and Bruce Pascoe demonstrate how Aboriginal people cultivated the land through manipulation of water flows, vegetation and firestick practice. Not solely hunters and gatherers, the First Australians also farmed and stored food. They employed complex seasonal fire programs that protected Country and animals alike. In doing so, they avoided the killer fires that we fear today. Country: Future Fire, Future Farming highlights the consequences of ignoring this deep history and living in unsustainable ways. It details the remarkable agricultural and land-care techniques of First Nations peoples and shows how such practices are needed now more than ever.
Who's Minding the Farm?
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Who's Minding the Farm? is a call to action containing all Patrice Newell has learned in more than thirty years of hard work on her property Elmswood, near Gundy in the Hunter Valley. It is also a book of hope, showing that the old agriculture is now the new agriculture - the farming of the future. Patrice Newell has dedicated her life to understanding what it takes to create a sustainable and healthy agricultural business. Who's Minding the Farm? shows that it takes minds, muscles and conscious decisions to manage the land, to build a sustainable, organic alternative to industrialised farming. We must all work to conserve our most crucial assets: soil and water, and repaired the havoc caused by land clearing, toxic chemicals, feral plants and animals. Each one of us, in our consumption choices and how we live influences the management of the land.
Why you should give a f*ck about farming
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In this book Gabrielle Chan examines the past, present and future of farming with her characteristically forensic eye. She lays out how our nation, its leaders, farmers and eaters can usher in new ways for us to work and live on our unique and precious land.
Barefoot Horse Keeping
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"Barefoot Horse Keeping" provides a practical, accessible, and objective guide to barefoot horse keeping. The book draws on empirical research and the authors' 25 years experience delivering barefoot hoof care, saddle fitting, behavioral training, and rider coaching. The topics covered include the Barefoot philosophy, the herd and the environment, hoof trimming, diet and nutrition, and equine anatomy and biomechanics.
The Naked Farmer
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Ben Brooksby is a fifth-generation farmer from St Helens Plains in western Victoria. When he was younger, he struggled with anxiety and other mental health issues, as do so many others in rural communities.A simple social media post helped him to turn things around. After he shared a photo on Instagram showing himself naked in a truck full of lentils, he received a huge response, with other farmers wanting to share their own photos - and their stories.
Raising Animals for Fiber
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Understand the basics of keeping livestock for fiber, then progress into detailed information on raising sheep, Angora goats, alpacas, and Angora rabbits to discover which could be the best fit for you.
Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy
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In this ode to the thin veneer of Earth that gifts us life, commentator and farmer Matthew Evans shows us that what we do in our backyards, on our farms, and what we put on our dinner tables really matters, and can be a source of hope.
Grounded : how soil shapes the games we play, the lives we make and the graves we lie in
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An Aussie scientist digs up some dirt about the history and science of soil. Life on land could not exist without soil. Almost everything we need can be traced to the soil- food, fibre, medicines, even oxygen produced by plants. What would we be without it? Certainly not a planet worthy of the name Earth. There are already plenty of books about agriculture, ecology or how to grow tomatoes. This book is about the other stuff. Like how soil evidence can nail a murderer, the ingredients that make a Test cricket pitch, how the soil affects the taste of your favourite wine, the soil microbes that could be the next wonder drug, tips for digging a POW camp escape tunnel (disclaimer: don't try it at home) or mounting an invasion of Normandy (ditto), how to be ecofriendly when you're dead. In the unputdownable Grounded, soil scientist Alisa Bryce gives you the dirt on all this-and much, much more.
Weeds of the south-east: an indentification guide of Australia
A comprehensive identification guide for weeds in the south-east region of Australia. This third edition has been fully updated and reorganised to recognise recent taxonomic changes and includes some new species and photographs.* includes weeds of agriculture, bushland, waterways, gardens, roadsides, wasteland and amenity areas, as well as new and emerging problem species * illustrated with more than 2000 photographs including spectacular close-up shots* key features are described with relevant measurements for easier identification* comparisons are made to similar species and easily confused natives * situations where the species are likely to be found* occurrence by State using the latest herbaria records
