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 ...

Today was such a beautiful sunny day with the temperature around 60 degrees. Everyone is home due to the coronavirus precautions. It seems so different to not set an alarm. Of course, we sleep later ...

Ah, this spring weather gets me going. I can't wait to start planting the garden. Daniel plowed our garden plot a couple days ago in hopes to have it dry out faster. Digging deeper by plowing also ...

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 ...

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, ...

Editor’s note: This column is by Lovina Eicher’s 13-year-old daughter, Elizabeth. Lovina will return next week. I am giving Mom a break during this busy spring season of readying the garden. The first ...

Lovina and Joe have a bountiful supply of tomatoes from their garden. Many quarts of vegetable juice and pizza sauce are canned and shared with family for the winter months ahead. Last week I wrote ...

The children went back to school after being home a week for spring break. Lovina, 5, says she is glad to be back to school because she misses her teacher. The week is starting out nice with ...