When business was booming before last year's downturn, the Amish carpenters at The Barn Yard were turning out about 5,000 sheds a year. That was also before the company started building park model ...

In 1978, my lifelong friend and I decided we wanted to build a chinkless, scribed log building. Culturally there was a "back-to-the-land" movement going on, and I had 80 acres of land in the Hibbing, ...

AMAZONIA, Mo. -- For some people, the American Dream is a house in the suburbs with a two-car garage. For others, it's a little simpler. Verlin Jones of rural Amazonia is one who prefers the simple ...