April 15 was an unusually warm spring day in Belle Plaine. Jim Glisczinski's worn farm boots compressed the soft, freshly unfrozen ground as he walked toward his new John Deere planter. The complex ...

Is rural America really representative of the typical stereotypes? Popular culture gets a lot wrong about the rural USA. Here ...

We're feeling the Valentine's Day love with a slightly different twist - after all, what else would you expect from us? Most of the time we write about how to make rural life better. We don't want to ...

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 ...

Living in rural Indiana makes it hard to access health care. Our hopes fall to the next generation of doctors.

CPB announced $4.4 million in grants Thursday to support rural news services in eight states.

The recipients of this year’s Whippoorwill Award cover a wide range of rural people, places, and topics. The Whippoorwill is the only national prize for young-adult books that focus on rural themes, ...

In today’s food world, chefs, home cooks, and farmers are prime movers in the “farm-to-table” mission. That means restaurant chefs and home cooks in urban and rural kitchens seek the freshest ...

Brenda and Nathan Rudolph are seen in this undated photo with their children Vivian and Everett near Little Falls, Minn. (Credit: Dave Hrbacek/The Catholic Spirit via CNS.) Listen ST. PAUL, Minnesota ...

I grew up in a house with a hand-crank grain grinder from Lehman’s catalog in the kitchen — a kitchen that in spite of a fairly recent remodel, intentionally lacks a dishwasher. My parents, while anti ...

Pop portrayals of LGBTQ Americans tend to feature urban gay life, from Ru Paul’s “Drag Race” and “Queer Eye” and “Pose.” But not all gay people live in cities. Demographers estimate that 15% to 20% of ...

History buffs won't want to skip a visit to the LSU Rural Life Museum. Boasting the largest collection of material from 19th-century Louisiana, the museum comprises more than 30 historic buildings and ...