This book is intended as an inspirational manual for keeping a family milk cow. A lifetime of practical experience has been bound into one volume. Practical advice for the everyday and procedures for cow emergencies. Plus, answers to FAQ's like, 'Should you get a cow?' and 'How Much Space do I need' etc.
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Born Joann Harper Sills on 7/22/28 in Rumford ME to John Stanley Sills III and Edith Harper Garland Attended public and private schools in six states through h.s. (Total of 15 different schools) Attended UC Davis, studied Animal Husbandry, Animal Science, and Fine Arts Attended U HI studied oil painting Married 1948 to Dr. Jack R. Luick, Capt. USAF (Ph.D in nutrition) Six children Married Merril D. Grohman 1963 Publisher Pacific Sun Newspaper, Marin County CA Two children Married Dr. Terence A Rogers Dean, John A Burns School of Medicine Honolulu HI 1986 Beginning in 1952 Joann began an intense study of nutrition. She has published numerous articles and a book, Real Food (1990). It would be difficult to find anyone with comparable practical experience accompanied by breadth of knowledge in nutrition. This has enabled her to maintain historical perspective on current dogma regarding fat, cholesterol, animal products, food supplements and consumer attitudes. In1970 Joann was certified as a La Leche League Leader (La Leche League is the international breastfeeding support group) and has successfully counseled many women seeking a rewarding mothering experience. Joann is deeply persuaded of the importance of breastfeeding not simply as a way to create a happy, healthy and more intelligent child, but as the God given key to awakening in mothers and fathers a committment to quality parenting. 1976 Joann wrote and published Born To Love: Instinct and Natural Mothering. This book explores the intrinsic importance of instinct in infant and maternal behavior as discussed by John Bowlby in his seminal book, Attachment. Joann became interested in organic gardening and farming in 1950. Thenceforward she began growing and cooking from scratch most of her family's food. The emphasis at all times was on a full range of animal and dairy foods as enjoyed in traditional cultures. Poultry, goats, dairy and beef cattle joined the family; at one time the Grohman's grazed a Jersey cow on the lawn of their stately home in England! Joann is also very fond of dogs, cats and horses. For the Pacific Sun newspaper, Joann wrote five popular weekly columns under different names (restaurant, music and dance reviews, and a cooking and sport fishing column) and provided illustrations. While living in England 1970-75, Joann and Merril Grohman owned and operated a 60 cow Jersey dairy in Sussex In 1976 after returning to the US and purchasing Coburn Farm in Maine, Joann continued caring for her family, writing and farming full time until her move to Hawaii in 1986. Joann once again lives on Coburn farm where she continues to care for her animals and garden and works on polishing her bread baking skills using her red Aga cooker. She enjoys many visits from her beautiful children, 14 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren. Her favorite author is Patrick O'Brian, favorite composers are JS Bach and Hank Williams, favorite treat is raspberries smothered in Jersey cream, and favorite drink is Skyy vodka.
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125 of 129 people found the following review helpful
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At the time when I ordered this book, I was living in a trailer park, and researching nutrition carefully. I am a mother of five children, and our family keeps growing, so I want to be sure that our family gets the best nutrition we can. I feel that good nutrition is something every mother should strive to give her children, no matter how rich or poor.
So, after learning that untreated milk (unpasteurized, unhomogenized) is better for your health, I went looking for a legal way to obtain raw milk for my family. I started out at www.westonaprice.org (the Weston A. Price organization is aimed at getting nutrient-dense foods onto America's dinner tables) and could not find any suppliers in my area.
I started looking at the possibility of getting my own cow to milk, and ordered this book. In the first few chapters, Joann explains the value of the cow, and untreated dairy products. Then, she goes on to explain all the how-to's of having a cow. This book alone convinced me that I wanted to leave the city and the trailer park and have some land with a cow!
Since owning the book, I have referred to it often. When my cow got bloat, I quickly referred to the book to find out what to do. I saved my cow's life because Joann's words were right there, even though she lives far away from me. I'm so glad that she wrote this book, and even more glad that I own it. Joann also has an online diary (which I LOVE to read) and an online discussion forum that has been very helpful.
Oh, and one more thing, there is nothing comparable to the taste of food that you've raised yourself, not to mention the superior nutrition and absence of hormones, antibiotics, pesticides, and herbicides. It is a wonderful life, and this book helped me to have the confidence to jump in with both feet and do it!
74 of 75 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent book! It covers all areas of keeping a milk cow for your family practically, clearly, and concisely. It covers caring for your cow, feeding and health concerns, milking, breeding and calving. It also covers caring for your milk, making butter and other home dairy products. My copy is dog-eared and butter-stained, I refer to it often.
82 of 93 people found the following review helpful
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Why is modern America so dissatisfied with life? We're rolling in wealth to the extent that we can afford vacations to Europe, boats, swimming pools and $100 concert tickets. We don't have to bother raising or even cooking our own food, because multinational corporations continue to discover ways to produce technologically advanced, highly processed food products at lower and lower cost. We don't have to repair our own cars, clean our own houses, or mow our own grass. We own multiple automobiles, televisions, computers and even places to live. We take advantage of a standard of living that exceeds most other countries on the planet. To quote a popular song, "The Future's so Bright, We Gotta Wear Shades." Why then are so many of us taking Prozac, seeing therapists, and finding less and less joy in our daily lives? It's difficult to contemplate, but many of us somehow feel disconnected from our daily existence. Despite being surrounded by incredible riches, we somehow long for a lifestyle that no longer seems attainable. Something important seems to be missing. No only can't we identify what's missing, we don't have a clue on how to restore it to our lives. Joann Grohman's book, Keeping a Family Cow, provides a great deal of insight into this very issue.
Keeping in character with the book's premise, the author provides a detailed guidebook for nurturing and managing a dairy cow while successfully integrating such a creature into a modern lifestyle. Presented in an easy-to-understand, straightforward manner, the book offers up a plethora of information designed to turn the most inexperienced neophyte into a competent dairyman. The book provides details on animal acquisition, feeding, disease prevention, breeding and food hygiene, and is written in such a way to offer enlightened reading to a diverse audience. Joann also maintains a free web site,..., that provides a discussion forum for cow-related issues. If you've ever contemplated adding a bovine member to the family, this book will go a long way toward helping to make this project a success.
Even though these technical topics make the book worth the price of admission, I strongly believe that there is more to this book than initially meets the eye. During my undergraduate years, I stumbled upon a book called The Continuum Concept (authored by Jean Liedloff) that contrasts Western child rearing techniques with those of more primitive cultures. Even though I was not yet married, and had no interest in starting a family, I realized that there was something about her ideas that resonated with my innate sense of right and wrong. I couldn't identify why I could so easily relate to her views on nurturing infants, but it just seemed as if Liedloff had illuminated obvious truths about human nature that no one had previously discussed.
Joann's writings resonate in the same fashion. The first couple of chapters in the book seem to emanate from someone who shares Liedloff's understanding of human nature. Keeping a Family Cow demonstrates a remarkable insight into the cultural, technological and market forces that have produced the frenzied pace that we all take for granted, and demonstrates how the acquisition of a family cow can restore some of the "rightness" that seems to be missing from our daily existence. There's something incredibly satisfying about Joann's arguments to support the family cow concept, and her writings offer a glimmer of hope that we can somehow find our way back to a lifestyle that is more in tune with our expectations, our evolutionary experience as human organisms, and our hopes and dreams for the future. I can't recommend this book enough.
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Wonderful Book
This book is wonderful. Joann is a real genius when it comes to diary cows.I wasn't sure I could do this when I began to read her book, but she has given me the knowledge and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by donaldkrueger
The #1 Book You Need if You Have/Want/or Dream about owning a diary...
Keeping a Family Cow is the first book you should think about getting even if you are dreaming about getting a family milk cow. Read more
Published 5 months ago by BilOregon
MUST READ BEFORE YOU GET THE COW
KEEPING A FAMILY COW~ Wow what a book! Yes I have read it cover to cover. Once I started, I just couldn't stop. I was amazed at how such a dry subject could be made interesting. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Dody Bush-Retherford
Know Before You Leap
A lot of people would just like to "Do It" and say "We have a Family Cow and milk her ourselves...", but there are many things to consider before you even look at actually going... Read more
Published 14 months ago by H.S.B.
Wonderful
Its was all I expected and more! Highly recommend it. You would have no need to buy another book on this topic as the information is very detailed and covers all topics. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Marie Costello
Everything you don't know you need to know!
This book covers at least a little bit about everything you need to know about having a cow and many subjects include great detail so you may never need another book. Read more
Published on May 27, 2009 by Anna
Keeping a Family Cow
This is, by far, the BEST book out there for the average family with their cow. I have read it several times through already, and have had it only a few weeks. Read more
Published on January 19, 2009 by Kerry Van Wiltenburg
New to farming
We're city folks who have just gotten our dream place in the country. I've gotten all kinds of books on everything about gardening, livestock, cooking, canning, farm ponds,... Read more
Published on January 14, 2009 by Janet Crowley
Cow must-have!
Great book if you are thinking about getting a family cow, really the best book I've found on the subject. Read more
Published on July 9, 2008 by cvb
No Bull
Such a great read, I almost forgot I was researching a mundane topic: how to care for a milk cow. Having raised beefers for years, I thought I had the maintenance part down - not. Read more
Published on November 1, 2007 by S. Hopper
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Dairying in its most reductionist form, merely swiping some milk form a cooperative grazing animal, goes so many thousands of years back into pre-history that we can't get a fix on it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white scours, good silage, anionic salts, dairy feed, milk fever, true gut, untreated milk, cultured milk products, rumen bacteria, family cow, dairy breeds, rumen microorganisms, good hay, grain feeding, cutter bar, commercial milk, commercial dairies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Feeding Your Cow, Twentieth Century, Milking Your Cow, Hoard's Dairyman, New Zealand, Nutrition Against Disease, Roger Williams New!
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Dairying in its most reductionist form, merely swiping some milk form a cooperative grazing animal, goes so many thousands of years back into pre-history that we can't get a fix on it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
white scours, good silage, anionic salts, dairy feed, milk fever, true gut, untreated milk, cultured milk products, rumen bacteria, family cow, dairy breeds, rumen microorganisms, good hay, grain feeding, cutter bar, commercial milk, commercial dairies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Feeding Your Cow, Twentieth Century, Milking Your Cow, Hoard's Dairyman, New Zealand, Nutrition Against Disease, Roger Williams New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Feeding Dairy Cows by McCullough on page 145
- Real Food by Rh Value Publishing in Back Matter
- Diet for a Small Planet (20th Anniversary Edition) by Frances Moore Lappe on page 42
- The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable by Juliette de Baïracli Levy in Back Matter
- All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot on page 174
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