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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

WARETOWN - Shore Casual Amish Outdoor Furniture is holding a great end of summer selection available for area residents to close out the summer in luxury and style. Shore Casual has a large selection ...

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 ...

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.