The inaugural Best in Rural Writing Contest has now come to an end. The Milk House is grateful to the...
The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...
One of the first actions the British Government took after their withdrawal from the EU on the 1st January was...
The silence in that room had a warmth to it. It was the kind of silence which could only exist...
The July afternoon suspends thick, golden haze drifting from the wildfires out west. I heft a 50-pound bag of cattle...
“It’s not something we have to create, it’s something we already have. We have to teach people why blue tarps...
Even after so many years, tears still fill my eyes when I think of my brother’s farm accident. That was...
My favorite inheritance is the green toy metal shovel. Also, the elfin-like ski-toed leather booties. Also, the pair of snowshoes,...
William Shakespeare managed to pack an awful lot of drama into his graveyard scene in Hamlet. In fewer than three...
The following is an excerpt from Irish writer Maura McElhone’s book Falling for a Farmer (2018), published by Mercier Press. * It...
After running into each other on a Vermont trout river and falling into conversation one evening, Ted and I became...
My mother bought clothes to make herself feel good. She imagined herself being invited to a dinner party at a house...