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OUR PROMISE IS "IF WE SELL IT, WE USE IT ON THE FARM OURSELVES" |
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This list is by no means comprehensive.
We will be adding to it all the time so it is worth revisiting 1) TOOLS WE OFTEN GET ASKED ABOUT BUT WHICH WE DON'T SELL 
SCYTHES 
Burgon & Ball - www.burgonandball.com UK company that stocks a good range of scythes, replacement blades, sharpening stones and other cutting tools. 
Scythe Supply Company - www.scythesupply.com North American company specialising in scythes. 2-WHEEL WALK BEHIND TRACTORS  
Motorcolt Imports - sell BSC, Pasquali & Ferrari walk behind tractors, rotary hoes, reciprocating spaders & spares.Talk to Les Simone Mob 0415 460 036 Fax (02) 9606 6792 ENERGISERS We are often asked about electric fence energisers. We don't stock them because there is a large range of good brands and models readily available. They can be bought from any stock and station agents or farm supply companie that keeps electric fencing.  In the Canberra area go to somewhere like
Pastures Rural Centre - www.pasturesrural.com.au which has a good range of rural supplies, well trained, helpful staff and is conveniently located at Pialligo.2) BOOKS & THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM
The following people have been a great inspiration to us. Most of what we know has come from reading their books, talking to them and then trying out their ideas and methods on our own farm: HELEN & SCOTT NEARING Living The Good Life The Good Life Picture Album Continuing The Good Life Building And Using Our Sun Heated Greenhouse Our Home Made Of Stone The Making Of A Radical ELIOT COLEMAN The New Organic Grower Four Seasons Harvest JOEL SALATIN Salad Bar Beef Pastured Poultry Profits You Can Farm GENE LOGSDON Small Scale Grain Raising Organic Orcharding The Contrary Farmer The Contrary Farmers Invitation To Gardening You Can Go Home Again JOY LARKCOM The Salad Garden Oriental Vegetables NANCY BUBEL The New Seed Starters Handbook GEORGE HENDERSON The Farming Ladder Faber & Faber Farmers Progress Faber & Faber The Farming Manual Faber & Faber 1960 ANDY LEE & PAT FOREMAN Day Range Poultry - Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures Good Earth Publications 2002 CRISTOPHER ALEXANDER et al The Timeless Way Of Building Oxford University Press 1977 A Pattern Language Oxford University Press 1977 3) SOME OF OUR FAVOURITE INTERNET SITES
BOOK SHOPS Amazon.com is our first stop when we are looking for a title that we think is still in print However some of the books that are listed above are no longer in print and you will have to scour the second hand book market Chelsea Green Books for Sustainable Living. Chelsea Green are the publishers of our favourite vegetable growing book 'The New Organic Grower' plus many other most interesting titles. Subjects covered: Innovative Shelter, Energy, Garden, Small Farm, Whole Foods, Sustainable Forestry, Nature, Travel, Rural Renaissance, Livelihood. We often visit "the HUB" A personal newsletter from the publisher at Chelsea Green, intended for denizens of The Invisible Universe who think that it's important, and even fun, to live lives where human activities are in balance and harmony with nature. |
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New Gippsland Seed Farm is our favourite Australian seed company. They have a good range of both vegetable and flower seed, they are helpful when you phone them up and delivery is prompt. |
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Johnny's Selected Seeds is one of the best seed companies that we know. It has a really infomative catalogue and hosts a terrific web site. |
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ORGANIC FARMING BROADSHEETS If you are interested in subscribing to a newspaper on organic farming go to the following web sites.  Acres USA
- a magazine for eco-agriculture that is read world wide and published monthly.
This site includes many reprinted articles that are worth reading. Acres Australia - published monthly.Site includes a good online bookstore. POULTRY If you are interested in pastured poultry a great place to start is the Sustainable Farming Connection site. The pastured poultry resources give you links to a number of useful sources of information. Good Earth Publications publishes two good books on free range poultry and also has links to a number of other publishers who provide valuable information on conscious living and sustainable lifestyles. ORGANIC FARMING The Sustainable Farming Connection leads to many useful alternative farming sites. SUSTAINABILITY If you only ever go to one web site make it this one! Natural Capitalism Amory & Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken outline the solutions to many of our current world problems. Permaculture resource guide for the Canberra Region go to Ecosdesign. Dave Tooley & Stephen Glanville offer an excellent Permaculture Design service and interesting web site. SOIL TESTING SWEP is an independent Australian laboratory providing agricultural & horticultural Soil Balance Analysis, (with interpretation using the Mikhail System) as well as Plant & Water testing. SWEP's aim is to enhance sustainable productivity, particularly for Organic, Biodynamic and Holistic farming systems. AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CSIRO is doing some very innovative work with water and irrigation monitoring on our farm. Visit our CSIRO web page to have a look at the experiments on our farm. Continue to browse the CSIRO site to find out more about the Full Stop water measuring device and the technology that is available to record data onto an internet data base, using your mobile phone. 4) OTHER GOOD TOOL SITES IN AUSTRALIA
STAINLESS STEEL GARDEN IMPLEMENTS 
Digadoo - www.digadoo.com.au is an Australian company that manufacturesa range of excellent quality stainless steel shovels and spades. BULLDOG TOOLS 
The excellent forks and spades, made by the English tool company Bulldog, are now available in Australia from Gardenwear - www.bulldogtools.com.au Our favourite implement is a 4 Prong Compost Fork with a tubular steel handle. It is the perfect lightweight tool for moving and turning compost, hay, etc. 136 Green Oaks Drive, COOLUM BEACH, QLD, 4573 ph: 1800 726 687 5) TOOL AND EQUIPMENT SUPPLIERS IN COUNTRIES OTHER THAN AUSTRALIA
NORTH AMERICA
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