A Works Progress Administration study conducted during the latter years of the Great Depression found that Lancaster County’s Old Order Amish comprised the most economically and culturally ...

YORK, Pa. — It was New Year’s Eve 2008 when Matthew Kirchner drove past a farm on Gypsy Hill Road, southeast of Lancaster, Pa., and spotted a flock of geese roosting in the field above the old ...

AKRON -- At the spot where the past meets the present in the trend to eat locally grown and organically produced food, Ohio's Amish have parked their buggies.

Culture: Once a way of life, farming is receding as crop prices fall, land prices rise and automation rules agribusiness. Today many Amish men are going into other occupations.

As Amish Leave Farming For Other Work, Some Leave Their Homestead Lancaster, Pa., is changing as only about a third of the fast-growing religious group there still farm.

So far this year, LNP-LancasterOnline and other media have reported three fatal farm accidents. All of the victims were children or teenagers, and all were buried in Amish cemeteries: Do reports ...

The Amish version of a chandelier puts a warm glow on the meal and the old washboards and antique farming implements that adorn the room. The Amish are selective about their use of technology.

The old-fashioned ways of the Amish are helping researchers make new discoveries about the origins of asthma.

The Fisher Amish Schoolhouse, planned to serve roughly 35 students through grade 8, would be the third one-room schoolhouse ...

Sediment and nutrients have flowed from farms and piled up behind dams since Colonial times. That’s a huge threat now for the Susquehanna and Chesapeake.

Lancaster, Pa., is changing as only about a third of the fast-growing religious group there still farm. Most Amish heads of household work in businesses and construction these days.