Here is a community-driven list of sympathetic books, mostly from the pre-2020 era, covering the milk itself, how we got here, and what to do with raw milk. Some notable mentions related to nutrition have been included.
Historical and cultural context regarding raw milk
- The Raw Milk Revolution : Behind America’s Emerging Battle over Food Rights, by David E. Gumpert
- The Raw Milk Answer Book: What You REALLY Need to Know About Our Most Controversial Food, by David E. Gumpert
- The Untold Story of Milk : Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Products, by Ron Schmid
- The Raw Truth About Milk: Formerly The Milk Book-now revised and expanded, by William Cambell Douglas
- Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front, by Joel Salatin
Recipes and relevant food preparation books
- The Art of Natural Cheesemaking: Using Traditional, Non-Industrial Methods and Raw Ingredients to Make the World’s Best Cheeses, by David Asher
- Nourishing Traditions, by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig
- The Whole Beast, by Fergus Henderson
- Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods, by Sandor Ellix Katz
- The Recipe for Living Without Disease, by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Nutrition related books
- Devil in the Milk, by Keith Woodford
- The Cholesterol Myths, by Uffe Ravnskov
- We Want to Live, by Aajonus Vonderplanitz
- Milk Diet As A Remedy, by Dr. Charles Porter
- The Milk Book: The Milk of Human Kindness Is Not Pasteurized, by William Campbell Douglass II
- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by Weston a Price
- The Raw Milk Cleanse: My 35 Day Discovery On Nothing But Goat’s Milk, by Allyson A. McQuinn
- The Miracle of Milk: How to Use the Milk Diet Scientifically at Home, by Barnarr Macfadden
- Put Your Heart in Your Mouth, by Natasha Campbell-McBride
- Gut and Psychology Syndrome, by Natasha Campbell-McBride
Becoming a raw milk farmer
- Your Successful Farm Business: Production, Profit, Pleasure, by Joel Salatin
- The Small-Scale Dairy: The Complete Guide to Milk Production for the Home and Market, by Gianaclis Caldwell
- Keeping a Family Cow: The Complete Guide for Home-Scale, Holistic Dairy Producers, by Joann S. Grohman
- Producing Fresh Milk – Cow Edition, by Farm-to-Consumer-Foundation
- Raw Milk Production, by Tim Wightman
- Safe Handling – Consumers’ Guide Preserving the Quality of Fresh, Unprocessed Whole Milk, by Peggy Beals
- Farm Marketing from the Heart, by Charlotte Smith
