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 ...

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 ...

Canning season is still in full swing around here. Yesterday after doing laundry, I helped daughter Loretta make Thick and Chunky Salsa (recipe below). We canned 20 pints for them. On Saturday, I also ...

We have entered the month of June. Is it possible that 2021 is almost halfway through? I managed to get my gray dress suit sewed last week, and I still have a shirt I want to sew for my husband, Joe.

We are into the first weeks 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 ...

The article explores the Amish communities in Virginia, highlighting their history, lifestyle, and presence in various ...

MY AMISH HOME: Waiting for the next bump in the wheel At noon, neighbor Betty came to the door with two gallons of strawberries. She said they started at 5 a.m. and got 46 gallons and do I want two? I ...

We had a much-needed rain a few nights ago. It was our first rain since we had planted grass over a week ago. The garden was getting really dry also, so the rain was welcome. To beat the dry weather, ...