LANESBOROUGH — The Garritys know about giving something — in this case, a Lanesborough farm and its centuries-old barn — another life. The late Charles Garrity Sr. bought Brookside Farm in 1936. His ...

Jeff Marshall rolls along the Pennsylvania Turnpike, counting barns on the horizon — 50 so far today, many of them disintegrating. Marshall heads the National Barn Alliance, a nonprofit that works ...

At one time, those big old barns scattered across the countryside were part of the fabric of a community. Neighbors helped each other raise them. They danced in them. Granges met in them. “As the main ...

Cleaning out 60-plus years of accumulation of things from an old barn is a dirty job, writes Jenny Schlecht. She explains the process of clearing out the tornado-damaged building for a new barn. A ...

If you live in the country and enjoy seeing wildlife on your land, you may want to reconsider tearing down that “old eyesore” in the corner of your field. The Ozarks countryside is dotted with barns, ...

Larry Gerdes is having his barn taken down and disassembled in Malta Bend, Mo. It’s about the size of a three-car garage but stands much taller in a clearing surrounded by six-foot stalks of corn. The ...

Andrea Frank-Genduso is known for her ideas. Her mind is always buzzing, coming up with new projects. It frustrates her when her plans can’t be realized as quickly as she thinks them up. “We have to ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. “Amy builds. I un-build.” That is how Brett Trefethen captures the essence ...

When Scott Tempel and his wife, Kara, bought their 13-acre farm in Scott County a year and a half ago, it came with a storybook dairy barn that had faded red boards, a steep metal roof and an old ...

Furniture craftsman Chris Brown built a large outdoor farm table for David and Gina Mussett that’s become an attraction at the couple’s front yard facing Edinboro Lake. The beauty, skill and ...