by Sarah Flack

Healthful organic milk comes from healthy cows, which come from good forage management based on healthy soils. Here's help in developing the observation skills and practices to get there, including chapters on soils, plants/forages, livestock, marketing and record-keeping. Health-protecting treatment options are covered, plus considerations for marketing fluid milk and value-added dairy products and coverage of regulations issues. Profiles of half a dozen individual farms help shed light on aspects of dairying and value-added production.

Sarah Flack is a popular workshop presenter, an agricultural consultant and organic and biodynamic farmer from Vermont. She does independent organic certification inspections and consults on grass farming and farm design and business management.