Keeping a Family Cow, Revised and Updated Edition

The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy Producers Joann S. Grohman $19.95 Paperback 6 x 9 296 pages ISBN 9781603584784 Pub Date: November 1, 2013

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Keeping a Family Cow is the only owners manual you will need. In elegant, readable prose, Grohman guides the neophyte through all the steps, from choosing a cow, to milking her, to making butter, yogurt, and cheese. Sally Fallon Morell, president, The Weston A. Price Foundation

The cow is the most productive, efficient creature on earth. She gives you fresh milk, cream, butter, and cheese, and promotes human health and happiness. She helps give homesteaders and small farmers a chance at turning a profit while they provide bounty for the community. She provides rich manure for your garden or land, and enriches the quality of your life as you benefit from the resources of the natural world.

Originally published in the early 1970s asThe Cow Economyand reprinted many times since,Keeping a Family Cowis the book that launched thousands of holistic small-scale dairy farmers and families raising healthy cows in accordance with their true nature. This Chelsea Green edition of a nearly forty-year-old classic has been revised and updated to incorporate new information on the raw-milk debate, the conversation about A1 vs. A2 milk, totally grassfed dairies, practical advice for everyday chores, updated procedures for cow emergencies, and more. The book offers answers to frequently asked first-time questions, such as: Should I get a cow? and How much space do I need? In addition, the book provides extensive information on: The health benefits of untreated milk; How to milk a cow effectively and with ease; Drying off your cow; Details on calving and breeding; Making butter, yogurt, and cheese; and more. Keeping a Family Cownot only has stood the test of time, but it remains the go-to inspirational manual for raising a family milk cownearly forty years after its first publication. Joann Grohman has a lifetime of practical experience that has been bound into this one volume and presented in the spirit of fun and learning.
Home food production has been Joann Grohmans lifelong enthusiasm. She started milking cows in 1975 and can no longer imagine life without one. She declares that health and happiness cant be teased apart and that your dairy cow supports both. Joann finds that the prevailing beliefs about farming and nutritionwhich cant be teased apart eitherhave been generated by people who have never gotten their hands dirty. Very little of what they teach would survive a year on the farm. Real farming and real food leave you feeling there is a tomorrow. In the morning your cow will be waiting. Grohman lives in Maine.

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