cover image It All Began with Daisy

It All Began with Daisy

Sonia Jones. Dutton Books, $16.95 (237pp) ISBN 978-0-525-24540-7

The eponymous Daisy is a cow that the author and her husband bought when they moved from New York City to a farm in Nova Scotia. Daisy's yield of milk proved to be so plentiful that the author was able to make yogurt for local store owners to sell. As the fame of the product spread so did its sales, and the business continues to reward the husband-and-wife partnership. The author relates the story in an engaging fashion, even describing setbacks cheerfully. There is added charm in accounts of veteran farmers whose advice was invaluable to the couple, to whom rural life at first was utterly alien. (May 27)