One-Cow Revolution: Achieving Food Independence with a Grass-Fed Family Cow

One-Cow Revolution: Achieving Food Independence with a Grass-Fed Family Cow - Paperback

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One-Cow Revolution: Achieving Food Independence with a Grass-Fed Family Cow - Paperback

One-Cow Revolution: Achieving Food Independence with a Grass-Fed Family Cow - Paperback

by Beth Dougherty , Shawn Dougherty
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Book Overview

Essential experience-based advice and instructions from the authors of The Independent Farmstead for raising a grass-fed milk cow as the heart of a successful low-input, low-cost homestead.

For more than three decades, Shawn and Beth Dougherty have honed their frugal methods for managing a small-scale farmstead on marginal land. In One-Cow Revolution, they share their wisdom and affection for the blessing that is the human-dairy cow partnership, addressing key questions with clear answers for those who have just moved back to the land (or are still planning and dreaming). The Doughertys begin at the beginning, advising readers on how to find a reliable dairy cow, move her to the homestead, and settle her in. They take readers on the round of daily chores, including managing their cow's grazing patterns and monitoring pasture health, milking a cow, and handling the milk. They explain how a solar-powered cow becomes the heart of a diversified farmstead, providing food for calves, pigs, and other livestock; milk and meat for the family; and manure for high-quality compost to build healthy garden soil. The book's exemplary how-to content is framed by an introduction and conclusion that describes their life philosophy as "cow people" and the many benefits that manifest in communities where small, food-independent farmsteads thrive as models of sustainable human land-use.

"This is the homestead dairy cow book every homesteader needs!"--Amy Fewell, founder, Homesteaders of America
ISBN9781645023128
Author Beth Dougherty , Shawn Dougherty
PublisherChelsea Green Publishing Company
GenreHobbies & interests and Technology
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2025
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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By Beth Dougherty and Shawn Dougherty
About Beth Dougherty
Shawn and Beth Dougherty have been farming together for over thirty years, the last twenty in eastern Ohio on their home farm, the Sow's Ear, where they and their children raise grass, dairy and beef cows, sheep, pigs, and poultry. They identify intensive grass management as the point of union between good stewardship and good food. Their ongoing goal is to rediscover the methods and means by which a small parcel of land, carefully husbanded with the application of ruminants, pigs, and poultry, can be made to gain fertility and resilience while feeding the animals and humans living on it.
About Shawn Dougherty
Shawn and Beth Dougherty have been farming together for over thirty years, the last twenty in eastern Ohio on their home farm, the Sow's Ear, where they and their children raise grass, dairy and beef cows, sheep, pigs, and poultry. They identify intensive grass management as the point of union between good stewardship and good food. Their ongoing goal is to rediscover the methods and means by which a small parcel of land, carefully husbanded with the application of ruminants, pigs, and poultry, can be made to gain fertility and resilience while feeding the animals and humans living on it.

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