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.

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 ...

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 ...