The Milk House column has appeared in print since 2011. Have a browse of some of the previous Milk House columns, both featured on the site and elsewhere.
- The Geography of a Family
- The Folks Go Abroad
- A New Notion on the Ocean
- The Parlor Cat
- Throwing Down Cards
- Attack of the Old Naked People
- The Lime Pile Field
- The Rhythm of Farming
- The Lawn Between
- The Last Crofter
- My Life as a Starship Trooper
- The Thing Itself
- Why We Bought So Much Feed in Western New York
- After the Spilt Milk
- Santa Claus Doesn’t Milk Cows
- Notes on Rocky Island Agriculture
- The Farm Radio Cure
- The Boy in Handcuffs and Other Things We Did
- On the Farming Community
- Larry, the Sh– Duck
- The Tight Shorts Conundrum
- Milkman Tribute
- The Parlor Hockey Life
- The Icelandic Cow Principle
- Farm Dog Phene
- Assessing Nature
- Milking Cows During a Zombie Apocalypse
- Laughing with Birds
- In a Crowded Parlor
- Question 16: Revisted
- The Mind of a Body
- The Hairy Women of Klipnocky
- The White Revolution
- A Manifesto on Fire
- Taking Back Spring
- Gambler
- The Assessment of Land
- The South African Farm Attacks
- Watching Germans Milk Cows
- The Barn Cat Dictum
- Farmer’s Son as Streetperson
- The Displaced Generation
- The Greening of Greenland
- Country Music and Me
- The Notorious Out-dated Mustard Heist
- A Woman’s Business
- Behind the Curtains of a Christmas Column
- Civilization: That is to Say, Farming
- The Sparrow and the Robot
- Venture of Solitude
- Foreigner’s Guide to Over-thinking a Farm Visit
- Problem People
- Behind the Fashion
- Anthem
- The Warrior Farmers
- Behind the Glass
- The Custodians of Culture
- Confessions on the Sistine Chapel
- Time
- Planting the (Patented) Seed of Resistance
- Cow Calling and Small Towns
- Chris and the Cornfield Romance
- Songs without Words
- The 20s, Revisited
- Talking about Deer
- Dinner for One
- The Sheep in the Louvre
- Vengeful Mutated Calf Fetuses
- Losing Champ
- Life, Unmeasurable
- Jurassic Park Farming
- Scarf-Wearer, Cat-Shooter
- Cowboy 1823259
- Inter-planet Ag
- Strange Bob Square Bale Pants
- Dancing with Reality
- Community, Cow by Cow
- The Last Cowboy
- The Punks of Belfast
- Manure and Mysticism
- The Monkey in Barn Boots
- The Milk Mafia
- Run Bucky Run
- Silo City
- Christmas Conversations
- The Breaking of Bill Bailey
- Diving
- She Gone Chicken Crazy
- The Call of the Mountains
- The Kelly House
- Going Greyhound
- The Country Mouse Pauses
- The Giant Man Wearing a Hat in the Desert
- The Rye in the Sky Idea
- A Cowboy Once
- As Seen on TV
- Tea-Talk on the Irish Countryside
- Rabbit People
- I Walk the River
- Nature vs. Man (On Bicycle)
- Bad Principles
- Bog Butter
- Writing the Wrongs of Farming Characters
- Weddinged
- Milking with Santa
- Trading Punches (for Life Lessons)
- What’s Actually Lost in Translation
- Social Farming
- That which was Marked by Squirrel Tails
- Generation eXcluded
- Fishing During a Class War
- Born to be Broke
- Typecast
- Japan and its Milk Modernity
- Giving Ball
- The Viking and the Spartans
- Man vs. Beefst
- A Day in the Irish Mart
- 10 Farm Novels for Winter Reading
- The North Pole Conspiracy
- The Digital Harvest
- Wind Watching
- A Quick and Overly-Simple Explanation of Global Agricultural Politics
- Climbing
- Snowpocalypse Ireland
- We are Huddersfield
- The Cubs and Grandma
- Grounded in the Past
- Walking Among the Owned
- Diamond-Shaped Redemption
- The Afternoon Crowd
- Towards Equality in Farming
- Cows in the Classroom
- An Agri-Cultural Phenomenom: The Persian Qanats
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