SPRINGHOUSE

In olden times......., so the story goes, well, not that long ago (i.e. when I was a boy) when dairy farmers milked a few cows and stored the milk in large cans on the farm (before the days of stainless bulk tanks), the large cans (I cannot remember what they were called, the cans, I mean) were stored in the "spring-house". The spring-house was typically adjacent to the milking parlor or the stanchions where the cows were milked and was the farm's primary source of well water. Ahh, well water! Nice 'n cool, especially on hot, humid summer days. Anyhow, the cans of milk were stored in tanks filled with the cool well water inside the spring-house in order to cool the milk prior to being picked up by the local dairy.

This is our SPRINGHOUSE......it's spring inside, especially on sunny days, when it typically 

reaches 75 - 80 degrees. Even on a day like the one pictured here. 

And we have to open the vents to cool it off for the lettuce's 'n spinach, lest they get too hot. 

In fact, we have cool well water inside our spring-house, too. We use it for irrigation, of course.