Sometime in January, 1974, Omanson received divorce papers from his wife. Caught off-guard and emotionally crushed, he just signed the...
This photo is of my father. I hold it in my hands, a 4-inch by 4-inch Kodak memory of my...
The early 1970s found us almost completely mechanized on our farm in the rolling hills of central Mississippi. At the...
Back in the late thirties, a little before I was born, my father had a tenant house built. It was...
Sometimes when practicing mindfulness, Patrick Mulcahy, AKA The Mindful Farmer, returns to a specific childhood memory * The river flows...
In western Kansas one can see for miles. Grain elevators stick out of the earth like push pins on a...
The primary reason Omanson had hitchhiked out from Illinois to the northwest coast in November of 1973 was to find...
What follows is a selection from the opening chapters of BJ Omanson’s memoir Three Years on the Nowhere Road in...
THE PARLOR is a new series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can...
Farming is an essential part of the human story. Although the number of farmers is declining world wide, many people...
As a farmer and former English major, it gives me no pleasure to announce this, but the truth is agriculture...
Writing the Land: Foodways and Social Justice is a collection of poems and essays that brings together poets, land protection...