Social media influencers are using their platforms to share more than just aesthetic glimpses at ag life — they’re educating followers about rural realities, farm work and what it truly means to live ...

Jerry Laughlin, 46, who took over a fifth-generation farm near Imogene, Iowa, in 1999 and hopes to move more into farming crops for food rather than industrial use, is grateful for his Catholic faith ...

What drives economic growth in rural areas — jobs attracting people, or people attracting jobs? According to Amanda Weinstein of the Center on Rural Innovation, the answer may lie in an unexpected ...

The Center for Small Town Jewish Life at Colby College is growing as Passover ends this year. It's located at Colby, the ...

Many of us who dwell and work in major cities dream of someday moving to the countryside. Nature. Fresh air. Rustic food. Simple living. And friendly neighbors. That’s what we dream about. But in ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Contrary to what many believe, the risk of dying from an injury is far less in the city than in the country, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. Although homicides in cities far ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dusk in downtown Lumberton, county seat in Robeson County, N.C., the most diverse rural county in America. AP Photo/David Goldman ...

The rains we’ve had during late summer and fall have been good for restoring soil moisture in the fields but not so much for our gravel roads. Calling them gravel roads probably is being generous ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tucked behind fields, farms and winding creeks, a quiet stretch of rural land could soon give way to a new conservation-style ...

Members of the Steinman family drew near to an altar made of wood from a barn their ancestors had built and used. Under glass beneath the cloth, were funeral cards of those who had gone before them, ...

On Saturday, Sept. 28, the community was invited to see a selection of the images shot during the 2024 Missouri Photo Workshop. (Photo by Kaitlyn McConnell) It was a hot, sunny Sunday afternoon when I ...

The smooth, rounded indentations have a way of humanizing the ancient canoe secured in the covered gallery behind the LSU Rural Life Museum's barn. These are places where people's backsides wore down ...