There are signs less obvious than handwritten “No Sunday sales” that this is an Amish garden. First, the garden is large enough to feed a family in the double digits. Long straight rows of beans, ...

The Amish Country Spring Home and Garden Show is at the Mt. Hope Event Center now until Saturday!

Amish gardener Lapp offers an intimate journal of a year of gardening, cooking, family life, and friendships in the small, rural valley in Pennsylvania where she lives. She begins in January, with the ...

We are into the first week of May. The grass is growing fast with all the rain April brought us. We need to buy a new mower. Ours last year was getting repaired constantly. I couldn’t believe what new ...

We are getting a lot of spring work accomplished. Joe has finished trimming the fruit trees and is slowly burning the branches. The trees were really overgrown and look like it has been years since ...

CADWELL, Ill. (AP) -- Self-sufficiency is a way of life in the heart of Moultrie County Amish country. But Ben and Betty Graber and their children have taken that Old Order ethic a step further.

Image Credits: Andrea Izzotti / Shutterstock. The Amish community is often admired for its simple, self-sufficient way of life. By intentionally stepping away from modern conveniences, they have ...

Overnight we’ll call for a quiet one. Skies are mostly cloudy, temps are warm and breezy, around 60 degrees. Almost feels like a summer night tonight. Neighbors, concerned citizens and community ...