There are rarely traffic jams in the small Adams County farming town of Ritzville, but there was one last week as people turned out in droves for 20 tons of free potatoes. At times, the line of cars ...

BILLINGS – Last spring, members of the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony plowed under their lentil field and on the land began construction of a manufacturing plant. The structure, now nearly complete, ...

CHOTEAU — When a chain snapped during an attempt to free a tractor stuck in the mud during seeding, the accident cost a young member of New Rockport Hutterite Colony his arm. The next day, George ...

WASHINGTON (RNS) A character on a National Geographic Channel documentary series about a rural Hutterite colony defended his community and the production company after Hutterite bishops criticized the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana’s 50 Hutterite colonies have a big impact on agriculture and Hutterites often sell their ...

Tony Waldner has coordinated the sale of produce for his Hutterite colony at the Grand Forks Farmers Market every summer since it began more than 10 years ago. Tony Waldner and two young women stand ...

And of course, due to the nature of “women’s work,” if it is done cooperatively by a large number of women, it is decidedly easier than the chores of the single farm housewife. Hutterite families live ...

The old-fashioned ways of the Amish are helping researchers make new discoveries about the origins of asthma. By studying the blood, genes and environmental dust of 30 Amish children from traditional ...