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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'

I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.

A cow out on grass is just an incredible thing to behold... Cows and other ruminants can do things we just can't do. They have the most highly evolved digestive organ on the planet, called the rumen. And the rumen can digest grass. It takes grass, cellulose in grass, and turns it into protein, very nutritious protein. We can't do that.

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Growing up on a dairy farm, you certainly learn discipline and a commitment to purpose.

When I was growing up on our 53-acre dairy farm, we were obsessed with food; it was the center of our lives. We planted it, grew it, harvested it, peeled it, cooked it, served it, consumed it - endlessly, day after day, season after season.

My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.

Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.