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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is Tuesday evening here in Michigan at the Eicher homestead. All is quiet with only son Kevin and daughter Loretta home with Joe and me. The rest of our children here at home went to a wedding for ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last week I wrote about how chilly it was, and now this week we are wishing we had some of that cool air. It has been a warm muggy week. We had a thunderstorm and quite a bit of rain during the night.

It is 4:30 a.m. and son Joseph just left for work. They have a one-and-a-half-hour drive to the job site today, so they had to leave earlier than usual. Joseph enjoys construction work. Son, Benjamin, ...