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 ...

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 ...

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.

A Cold Weather Advisory has been issued by the National Weather Advisory for much of northeast Ohio starting at 1 a.m. on Friday and continuing through noon on Saturday. The threat of snow overnight ...

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 ...

Joe just left for work and now I want to get this written and ready for the mail. The children are all asleep yet so all is quiet. They had a long day yesterday. My sister Emma and children came to ...