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10 farm novels for reading
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10 Farm Novels for Winter Reading

Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
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On Collapsing Dairy Barns, by Will Weaver

While reading about Minnesota’s dairy barns collapsing under the weight of snow, I could not but think of my family’s...
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Poems by Dudley Laufman
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Poems by Dudley Laufman

THAT GERTRUDE COW   for Annie the Herdswoman It was below freezing in the milking parlor. The freshly hosed down cement...
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Martin Keaveney tells of rural life in Ireland
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Killer (fiction), by Martin Keaveney

We’d passed Neary’s millions of times. It was about halfway between me and Tobin’s place outside our village. We’d often...
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farm youth
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Records on the White Door

Finding a role in my family’s small dairy operation is quite literally the oldest goal I can recall from my...
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Maura McElhone's book Falling for a Farmer
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At the Tail End of Calving, by Maura McElhone

The following is an excerpt from Irish writer Maura McElhone’s book Falling for a Farmer (2018), published by Mercier Press. * It...
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Willard Cochrane
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Remembering Willard Cochrane, by Richard A. Levins

My friend Willard Cochrane’s last book, The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance, came out in 2003. In that book, he...
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Best Rural Novels
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Best Rural Novels: A List of 10 to Get Started

Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
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Nicki Griffin writes about the natural world
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3 Poems by Nicki Griffin

Crossing Places  At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
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rural life column video
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The Milk House Column Video: Scenes Behind a Rural Life Column

It is getting close to ten years that The Milk House feature has appeared in magazines across the globe. The...
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farmer later going to read books about farming
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Five Books about Farming that Explain the Industry

Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
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The Valley of Uggool, where the Irish famine and feast happened
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A Feast and a Famine, by Stephen Reilly

The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...
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