While the average family size in the United States has been shrinking for decades, the Amish population continues to ...

After years of legal wrangling, Sugar Grove’s Old Order Amish residents will legally be allowed to use their outdoor privies rather than be required to use Sugar Grove’s municipal sewage system. The ...

The Yoders eventually agreed to keep using their privy and not connect to the sewer system in exchange for paying a one-time, $1,000 tap-in fee, past due charges of $864 and ongoing monthly payments ...

And we’ve made trips back to Shipshewana many times since then. Most of those visits have been in the winter months. One year ...

Editor’s Note: The Amish Cook column celebrates 34 years in 2025 and will continue as long as Gloria wants to write it, readers want to read it and editors publish it. And we thank the readers ...

Meantime, the chasidic schools, known as yeshivas, are beseeching President Trump’s education department for relief, calling ...

Yoder’s: Amish ingenuity meets Florida sunshine! This Sarasota gem looks like it teleported straight from Pennsylvania, bonnets and all. Photo credit: sonny dinh Tucked away in Sarasota’s Pinecraft ...

By: Gloria Yoder Are you a morning person or an evening person? I am intrigued by the drastic variation of mankind. How can ...

For three weeks, the school children were hard and heavy into hunting and trapping pests.  The teachers in our little country school divided the children into two groups to see who could acquire the ...

Those will also likely be the ones going strong into the night while all the others have crashed out. So which is best? Who ...