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We may be early but we thought you wouldnt want to miss out on our selection of 2015 calendars!
With 15 to choose from, all with amazing images capturing farming in the best possible way. Featuring tractors, combines and other farm machinery pictured in 12 monthly installments. All photography has been undertaken by Dave Franciosy of FarmingPhotography.co.uk.
These would make a fantasic gift for all tractor and machinery enthusiasts.
Farming and Tractor 2015 Calendars available to order now.
New in this week we have This book takes an in-depth look at 600 significant examples of beetles, presented through astonishing photographs showing in detail the life size specimen.
Each profile includes a population distribution map, a table of essential information, a commentary revealing notable characteristics, a list of related species, and a diagnosis of the example beetle’s importance in terms of taxonomy, rarity, behaviour and scientific significance.
The author, Patrice Bouchard, is a research scientist and curator of Coleoptera at the Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes. With his extensive background knowledge, he illustrates the information in an easy-to-read format that can be appreciated by all.
The Great American Wheat Harvest is a documentary film that tells the story of hard-working families who spend each summer travelling from Texas to the Canadian border and beyond, harvesting thousands of acres of wheat. They take risks most of us wouldn’t dream of taking so that all of us have an abundance of food on our tables.
Battling high fuel prices, labor shortages, extreme weather, severe drought, and occasionally a fire, these harvesting crews wouldn’t dream of doing anything else, because they know they are harvesting the wheat that feeds the world.
http://www.oldpond.com/the-great-american-wheat-harvest.html
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Welcome to the lush green pastures of Southland, New Zealand.
Here on the other side of the world men and machines are turning the expansive fields into top quality winter feed.
But there is a twist!
12 men from Ireland and England came to New Zealand to experience unique farming practices and the contracting required to plough, sow, drill, mow and harvest for sheep, beef and diary cattle.
http://www.oldpond.com/grass-reapers-dvd.html
View the trailer here:
At only £5.99 each, these are definately an Old Pond bargin not to be missed.
Firstly, we have Heavy Horses, four episodes of Out of Town in which Jack visits Dorset to see the mane of a heavy horse dressed, and also does some fishing.
Following this, Pony riding includes pony performances in New Forest including fly fishing and Grayling fishing trips, all split across three episodes.
Jack heads over to Tregaron in Wales for the Sheep Dogs box set. He visits a sheepdog sale on a bitterly cold day as well as visiting a farm in Hampshire where the local young farmers' club members demonstrate generations-old methods of carn-threshing.
Finally, jack takes a trip into the past at the Appleby Fair in Cumbria where he enjoys demonstrations of some old country crafts. He also goes barbel fishing in another episode, with the Ringwood Anglers’ Club on the Lower Hampshire Avon.
These box sets are a great way to explore and learn about country life in rural Britian. To order or take a look at each episode in further details, please click on each boxset below.
Ice Pilots NWT is a 13-episode real-life docu series about an unorthodox airline in the Canadian North. Yellowknife-based Buffalo Airways flies WWII-era propeller planes big old aircraft built by “Rosie the Riveter” and pretty much unchanged.
Rookie pilots defy bone-chilling temperatures to fly cargo and passengers through blizzards, breakdowns and transatlantic journeys. It’s an impossible job in a merciless place.
New recruits come to slog it out on the ramp in -30°C weather to earn a chance to fly planes that most airlines scrapped long ago. Classics like the Douglas DC-3 and DC-4 and the Curtiss C-46 Commando, the very planes that once ferried troops and supplies in WWII.
Few newbies make it. As they compete to rise up the ranks, they cope with ice storms, forest fires, treacherous landings and legendary owner “Buffalo” Joe McBryan’s famous temper. Buffalo Airways is literally a lifeline to the North. As Joe’s son Mikey McBryan puts it: “You can’t separate the North from flying. It’s the same thing.” Without Buffalo Airways, food and supplies wouldn’t reach the many northern communities cut off from the rest of the world during the long, harsh winter.
This season on Ice Pilots NWT, viewers will follow a treacherous transatlantic journey in the middle of winter as crews attempt to deliver two Canadair CL-215 waterbombers to their new owners in Turkey. The problem? These aircraft aren’t designed to fly in winter conditions and aren’t configured for flying over larges bodies of water. Getting there proves to be a daring feat.
Viewers will also watch the drama unfold as pilots fresh out of flight school pay their dues as“rampies”, anxious for a chance to fly. Rampies load cargo, sweep snow off the wings and log hours as flight attendants, competing fiercely with one another for the next coveted co-pilot position. Friendships among pilots are also tested as they vie for enough flight hours to make captain. By the end of the season, someone will be leaving Buffalo Airways. Ice Pilots NWT gives viewers a rare look at life “north of 60”. With the economic downturn, a dwindling supply of speciality aviation gas and the high cost of flying vintage aircraft, the very future of Buffalo Airways hangs in the balance.
To order your 4 DVD box set please click here