Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
While reading about Minnesota’s dairy barns collapsing under the weight of snow, I could not but think of my family’s...
THAT GERTRUDE COW for Annie the Herdswoman It was below freezing in the milking parlor. The freshly hosed down cement...
We’d passed Neary’s millions of times. It was about halfway between me and Tobin’s place outside our village. We’d often...
Finding a role in my family’s small dairy operation is quite literally the oldest goal I can recall from my...
The following is an excerpt from Irish writer Maura McElhone’s book Falling for a Farmer (2018), published by Mercier Press. * It...
My friend Willard Cochrane’s last book, The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance, came out in 2003. In that book, he...
Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
Crossing Places At the crossing places when the river is still and ghosts untangle themselves from the trees you can...
It is getting close to ten years that The Milk House feature has appeared in magazines across the globe. The...
Ryan Dennis is the author of The Beasts They Turned Away, a novel set on an Irish dairy farm. He shares...
The Irish are renowned storytellers. From Nobel prize winning literature to pub talk we are saturated in stories. We listen...