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Kayfabulous Women

I have a feeling that most people are going to remember the moment when they realized that the Coronavirus was...
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Trading Punches (for Life Lessons)

If there ever was a movie that captured the American spirit, it was Rocky. A no-name working class guy from...
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The Lawn Between

Going Retro! This piece, one of the early columns of The Milk House, was published exactly 10 years ago. *...
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Louis Bromfield
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Louis Bromfield: Expensive Suits to Barn Boots

The glitz. The glamor. The guernseys. There aren’t many individuals who stood at the intersection of fiction writing and farming....
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Dairy Bowl Question 16: Revisited

Omaha, Nebraska.  2004. Junior Holstein Association National Dairy Bowl Finals. I learned forward, hunched over the buzzer, as if the...
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The Digital Harvest

                                                                                                By Ryan Dennis My housemate brought home a virtual reality headset.  Being somewhat behind the times, I still thought...
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The Story of Milk

A good friend of mine is very concerned with his health. He juices carrots, goes to yoga, and once visited...
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Inside the Empty Barn

On March 9th, 2022, Jeff Corle watched his herd of Guernseys leave in a truck headed towards someone else’s farm....
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Behind the Fashion

This piece was originally published in 2014. Hipsters, however, have persisted since then. * After spending the last six months...
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Climbing

Sometimes the only way to know what the younger generation is into is to do what they do.
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Cat Scat Coffee

I started drinking coffee and milking cows at the age of twelve. They probably came hand in hand, if not...
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THE PARLOR: Hat’s Off by Sandy Korey

THE PARLOR is a series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can find...
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