April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...

I grew up in a house with a hand-crank grain grinder from Lehman’s catalog in the kitchen — a kitchen that in spite of a fairly recent remodel, intentionally lacks a dishwasher. My parents, while anti ...

Join Joel and his friends as they leave the busy cities of Seoul and Busan for a unique adventure in rural Korea. Experience ...

Living in rural Indiana makes it hard to access health care. Our hopes fall to the next generation of doctors.

Soybeans beginning to sprout on a farm in Nashville, N.C., in Nash County, on Thursday, May 16, 2019. Nash County is among the areas seeing an influx of new, formerly-urban residents. There’s nothing ...

Born and raised in Chicago's Beverly neighborhood, it was more than 30 years ago that Erin Yanz left the city for rural life.

There’s something we love about an old barn. The evocative, ramshackle look that suggests long, hard work taking place. The romance of the rustic rural farm life. The history, perhaps, of immigrants ...

HARBOR SPRINGS Kathryn Washburn Breighner grew up eight miles from her grandmother in Fowler, Ind. Yet it was a set of three worn, leather-bound journals she inherited after her grandmother's death in ...

This is the sixth article about one of the 26 items on the Baton Rouge Bucket List. The Advocate's features staff is ticking off each of the 26 items throughout 2023 and write and report first-person ...