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Keeping a family cow - book review

I was very excited to find Keeping a Family Cow: The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy Producers, by Joann S. Grohman in the Brisbane City Library.  Its a great reference and covers everything including raw milk, diary products, milking, feeding and caring for your cow and calf.  Of course, its written for the US market, so if you have an Australian house cow, I still recommend you read MY ebook too!




 You can read my full review here.  And there's more details about my eBook on my house cow eBook blog.









You might also be interested in my series on getting started with homestead dairy
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