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 ...

Amish furniture companies are showcasing their work this week at the Pittsburgh Home & Garden Show. The event gives the companies a chance to make contacts with future customers. “This is the only ...

AN ex-Amish woman has revealed some of the natural methods she learned while in the lifestyle. Even though she ran away from the strict religious community at 17, she shared many fertilization tricks ...

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.

EPHRATA, Pa. — Windswept, frostbitten and bedraggled, Lisa Von Saunder’s little fenced vegetable garden seems an unlikely Noah’s Ark on a chilly November afternoon. A rare African eggplant resembles a ...

Byler's daughter, Laura Anne Lapp, of Cumberland County, is a first-time author. Her chatty and engaging garden almanac, "An Amish Garden," is a month-by-month stroll around a saner, more grounded ...

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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 ...

We have entered into the month of May − so next month is June, which brings us even closer to daughter Lovina and Daniel’s wedding. I’m trying to not get nervous, but it always seems to be a long way ...