FORT SCOTT, Kansas (Reuters) – The simple way of Amish life is a bit too simple for one Kansas county, which wants outhouses on their farms to be upgraded and an end to plowing raw human sewage into ...

There’s a good reason the Amish are known for their butter. Karen Zimmerly, owner of Karen’s Country Kitchen, calls it “life-changing.” Her son bakes cookies with it and is often asked for his recipe.

Lacking the infrastructure of traditional suppliers, many local farms that want to connect to restaurants, schools and other big buyers are using the Internet to reach customers. Groups of farms are ...

The controversial anti-homosexual Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan., has canceled its plans to stage a protest at the funerals of the five Amish girls executed in their Pennsylvania school, a ...

The bold, rich colors and striking shapes of historic Amish quilts are highlighted in a new exhibition at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art at Kansas University. “Amish Quilts 1880 to 1940 from ...

Many outsiders assume the Amish reject all new technology. But that's not true. One Amish man in Lancaster County, Pa., checks his voicemail about four times a day. His shop is equipped with a propane ...

Carrie Gingerich grew up in Yoder. Each year, she would attend Yoder Heritage Day with her family. Now a mother and living in Partridge, she is excited to introduce 2-year-old Kendall to the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COLON, Mich. — A man has started his own ...

beneath the outhouses and plow it into fields. “Is there any evidence we are polluting anything, contaminating anything?” asked Amish farmer Chris Borntrager at a meeting of the Bourbon County ...