KALONA, Iowa — A white van, its sides covered with the words Kalona By-Ways Tours, sits parked in front of an Amish country store, a steady stream of plainly dressed men and women coming and going. “I ...

(AP) - A Mennonite group is raising money to buy 17,000 pounds of turkey as part of a national effort to feed people throughout the world. Each year, people who attend Mennonite churches, many in the ...

There's a solid brick barn on Victor Yoder's property near Kalona that has seen many uses over the years, he said. It started life as an Amish homestead barn built by Joe Gingerich in 1931 and served ...

Despite concerns from the Amish community, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors is moving ahead with a plan to repave a county road outside of Kalona, Iowa. The project will resurface a portion of ...

F rom his whitewashed farmhouse in southern Johnson County, James Bontrager can look across the fields and see, in the distance, the homestead where he grew up. One of nearly 200 Amish families in the ...

KALONA, Iowa - This small town has become a landmark in the organic-farm movement, and it has nothing to do with foodies or hippies. Instead it has been Amish farmers who, in their suspenders and wide ...

A conversation with one of her Amish neighbors near Kalona left Mary Swander feeling uneasy. It was March 13, five days after Iowa announced its first COVID-19 patient, and the elderly man Swander was ...