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, ...

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.

We are in need of rain. The gardens are dry and the grass is turning brown. Even with it being dry, our gardens are still producing; tomatoes and sweet corn have been on our menu quite a bit. I need ...