While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.
When Moosha gets stuck in the space meant for the Christmas tree, the cow family is sad until Dale, a baby calf, shows them how to make the best of the situation.
Hardscrabble Tennessee farmer Clemmon Hardigree's hard luck changes when he plants seed potatoes in Cow Hollow before his fat mountain cows cause the pasture to collapse.