Does your child have milk sensitivities that prevent consumption of this nourishing, nutrient dense food?

Come join us for a class on OWNING A FAMILY MILK COW!  Saturday, April 28, 10:00-4:00, Lunch included.  $75/person, Children 12 and under FREE, 4H members FREE.  Sabo Ranch, 303 Pony Rd., Harrison, MT, 59735.  406-685-3248.  Sign up here, or at http://www.brokengroundpermaculture.com/owning-a-family-milk-cow.html.

Riley Sabo, age 11, milks gentle Folly, a Jersey cross cow, every day for creamy, unpasteurized, grassfed milk for our family.

Many of us wish that we could have fresh, organic, grassfed, unpasteurized milk for our children and ourselves.   We can!  It takes some organization, but with access to land, a gentle house cow is not only possible, but an enrichment in many ways.

In years past, the family cow was often called “the Mortgage Lifter”, providing rich creamy milk for drinking, yogurt, cheese, butter, food for pigs, chickens, baby calves or bum lambs, manure for rich compost for a bountiful garden, and tender meat for the family freezer.  Using the bounty from one cow and her yearly calf, a resourceful farm family can provide for the majority of their yearly groceries!  And, any baby heifers can easily be trained and sold to pay for the rest!

Jenny Sabo and her sons, Riley(11) and Kiril(9), milk 5 cows daily, provide for much of their own kitchen needs, and train gentle “dude” cows for other families looking to start their own homestead.  Jenny’s husband Mark puts up the hay!

Learn what goes into caring for and milking a family cow, how much land, shelter and food is required, how to choose a good “starter” cow, and how to raise a healthy calf.  The day will also include a session on making butter, yogurt, kefir, whey, and soaking grains in soured milk or whey.

10:00am-4:00pm.  $75/person, Children 12 and under, and 4H members FREE.  Lunch is included.  Saturday, April 28, Sabo Ranch, 303 Pony Rd, Harrison, MT 59735.  (406)-685-3248.  10 spaces available for students.  Minimum number of students, 6.  See our Home Page for directions.

For more information on Sabo Ranch Internships, contact us at saboranch@gmail.com,

(406)685-3248.

Since our dairy calves spend at least half of each day away from their mothers so WE get some of the milk, we make sure that each calf is raised with a companion. Here, friends Devon steer calf Adam and Jersey heifer calf Ladine share a nap and a snuggle on a warm spring morning. (Sabo Ladine is an A1/A2 calf, sired by Beledene Dukes Landy)