Cañon City Public Library

For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish. Havyn is determined to find a way to keep the family together, but her grandfather's health is declining and everyone seems to be holding secrets from each other, including...

High Plains Intermountain Center for Agricultural Health and Safety created a training video to train dairy workers on how to keep themselves and their family safe and healthy.

"The Front Porch Promise" is a breathtaking story about one incredible woman's life and her ability to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. Following the tragic loss of her parents, the author, who was then just nine years old, and her three siblings were torn apart. With her older sisters departing on different paths, the author and her five-year-old brother were taken from the only life they had ever known--a rural dairy farm--and moved...

"What kind of animals are raised on a dairy farm? Cows! These farm animals are raised from calves to adult cows. They give us milk, which is also used for a large number of dairy products, including cheese, yogurt, ice cream, and much more. The photographs in this book show cows at a variety of life stages, the workers who care for them and milk them, and the technology they use. Readers are sure to enjoy this trip to a dairy farm"--

Pen /Hemingway Award-winning novelist Jane Hamilton follows up her first success, The Book Of Ruth, with this spectacularly haunting drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. Praised by reviewers for its intimate portrayal of the minds of its characters, a novel by the author of The Book of Ruth chronicles one family's decay through guilt and betrayal. Reprint. K. PW.

Andrea Arnold returns with an intimate portrait of a dairy cow's life. The film chronicles the daily life of dairy cow Luma in an attempt for humans to understand her reality. Sharing both the beauty and the challenge of dairy cow life, the film highlights the dairy cow's great service to us all.

Describes a dairy goat farm and the work which is done there.

"In the years after World War II, the Senter family built an Eden-like life on their isolated dairy farm in rural Maine. When tragedy strikes, the close-knit family is shattered. Each must fight the isolation their own grief and guilt as they attempt to reclaim some semblance of their old life-if they can. Like the best work of Kent Haruf and Marilynne Robinson, Meredith Hall's Beneficence beautifully illuminates the effects of love and loss while...

Lucinda and Rob live together happily with their 117 cows on a dairy farm until Rob proposes. Then Lucinda starts to worry that the sparkle may be fading from their love and she decides to put Rob's love through a series of tests. When she trades Rob's precious cows for a quilt from a mystical old Maori woman, Lucinda realizes that, silly games aside, she must get Rob's cows back before she loses her one true love. Ultimately she must learn the price...