Food, FoodWISE blog, Uncategorized The cow whisperer figures prominently in my new book, A Cultivated Life Posted by AJ on June 16, 2013April 11, 2019 Upstate New York’s Melanie J — the cow whisperer par excellence in Schuyler County, milking 800 cows, and handmilking a trio that’s all her own — she does it all. Each and every cow responds to her (and only her).