Goat Song : A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese (Paperback)

from copperkid

An intimate introduction to goats, their personalities, care, feeding, breeding and the production of cheese from them, this book is unique, warm, funny and instructional. As Brad Kessler and his wife embark upon a new life to raise goats and produce their own cheese, they also embark upon a life...

from MlleEhreen

This memoir describes Kessler's first year as a goat farmer. Kessler describes the day-to-day details of a pastoral existence, its seasonal chores, and mixes in erudite reflections and classical quotations ("the cry of a goat is so haunting and dramatic our word tragedy comes form it: tragoidia i...

from juniperSun

Beautiful use of language--including some uncommmon words ("Stotting" is the one I felt compelled to look up, and loved the memory-image it brought up of goats I've seen stotting). I also searched for recordings of yoiking and kulning (given my Scandinavian roots; I neglected searches for bertsol...

from weeksj10

I love it. After reading this book I started making my own goat cheese and looking at which goat breed I'm going to get.

from AlCracka

I loved this book because in addition to talking a lot about making cheese, the dude takes a lot of random trips off to talk about goats in history and literature and stuff...he's always shooting off on tangents, and they happen to be tangents that work for me. Your mileage may vary. My wife love...