In this April 9, 2013 photo, an Amish girl chases a cow from the outfield during a baseball game in Bergholz, Ohio. A study published Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2015 explored reasons why asthma is so uncommon ...

While growing up on a farm in Indiana we used to always get up at 4 a.m. to milk the cows. We would milk the cows by hand. Dad liked to have the cows milked at the same time each day, morning and ...

In this April 9, 2013 photo, an Amish girl chases a cow from the outfield during a baseball game in Bergholz, Ohio. A study published Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2015 explored reasons why asthma is so uncommon ...

A study published Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2015, explored reasons why asthma is so uncommon among Amish communities, where children play barefoot in dairy barns and farm fields. Early and frequent exposure ...

We carried our fresh from the cow milk in a little gallon pail that looked like a miniature ten-gallon milk can. How I would love to get one of those! Way back in the day, when I was probably a ‘tween ...

This week, a story in The New York Times points up an unlikely target for the Environmental Protection Agency: the Amish farmers of Pennsylvania's Lancaster County. Though you'd think these technology ...

Golden sunlight stretches wide over the Iowa hayfields in early September. At the Yoder farm near Bloomfield, a girl waves a hearty hello. This is Regina, age 15. Besides household chores, she and her ...

We were on our knees, having our morning prayer together when I heard the “tingle, tingle” of a bell. “What could it be?” I wondered. As we rose from our knees, Daniel stepped outside with Jesse to ...

Diddy, born Sean Combs, is a business man whose road to success has been long and winding. But who knew that his path to the top included a stop on an Amish farm where he learned to milk cows in ...

Recently, federal agents conducted an armed raid on the farm of Amish businessman Dan Allgyer of Pennsylvania. Concluding a yearlong investigation, the Food and Drug Administration determined there ...