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Biodynamic Sowing and Planting Calendar 2008, The €10.50
Matthias Thun, Maria Thun
The original biodynamic sowing and planting calendar, now in its 46th year. This useful guide shows the optimum days for sowing, pruning, and harvesting various plant-crops, as well as working with bees. It is presented in colour with clear symbols and explanations.

This year, for the first time, the calendar includes a pullout wallchart which can be pinned up in a barn, shed or greenhouse as a handy quick reference.

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Maria Thun and her son, Matthias, base this calendar on over forty years of biodynamic research and experience at their farm

64pp 2007 Ed 46 210x148

JACK`S WORLD €39.00
FARMING ON THE SHEEP`S HEAD PENINSULA, 1920-2003
Sean Sheehan, Danny Gralton (Ill), Ciaran Watson (Ill), Danny Levy Sheehan (Contributor)
Jack Sheehan was one of eleven children born into an impoverished farming family on the Sheep`s Head peninsula in southwest Ireland. Growing up in hungry times, he stayed on the farm all his eighty-three years, taking it over when his father died and steadfastly caring for its fields through the dormant 1950s and the better times that came in the decades that followed. He lived to see the eclipse of his farming world and to view with dismay the way encroaching property speculators and consumerism were changing the nature of his landscape.

Jack Sheehan was born just as the Irish state was coming into existence and his life is as revealing of that country`s history as the more familiar accounts of national figures. `Jack`s World`s` is illustrated in colour with specially commissioned photographs taken by three people, Danny Gralton, Ciaran Watson and Danny Levy Sheehan, who all knew Jack and know his farm. The book is also illustrated with maps, including one showing the farm`s fields and their Irish names that were preserved by Jack, and photographs of early documents relating to his farm`s history.

The book`s unique sources, in addition to the memories of friends and family who knew Jack and shared aspects of his world, include diaries kept by Jack from the early 1930s onwards.

2007 Hbk

 

 

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