WEST GREENWICH – Ram Pond, visible through the trees just off the Coney Brook Loop Trail, is named for the ramming sound made by a mechanism that was used in the 1800s to pump water up a steep ...

KEOTA -- Anyone who thinks life was simpler 100 years ago probably never had to work a go-devil cultivator or horse-drawn buck rake on the farm. Those pre-internal combustion days, however, are even ...

Romulus, NY -- Peter McDonald assigns his 9-year-old twin boys the tricky task of erecting a mesh fence in one part of the family farm, then tramps across lushly carpeted fields for a daily evaluation ...

POMEROY, Wash. — This past weekend, the Garfield County Fairgrounds in Pomeroy hosted a showcase of horse-drawn farming, offering a glimpse into agricultural practices from a century ago. The event ...

While the oil boom in the western part of the state is getting most of the attention these days, North Dakota's cultural and economic roots are planted firmly in agriculture. Millions of acres are ...

BLACKVILLE — The eighth annual Old-Time Horse Farmers Gathering will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 26 and 27 at the Ashleigh Heritage Farm on S.C. Highway 3, south of Blackville. This ...

History will take a threshing during the 2003 Ag-Rail Festival being held on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 16 and 17 at the Milwaukee Railroad Historic Site in Riverside. The Ag-Rail Festival will feature ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. In southern Ethiopia, the Konso people have maintained a 400-year-old stone terracing system, essential for farming in the region’s semiarid ...

In this May 12, 2011 photo, Peter McDonald walks with his 9-year-old son Philip, right, after collecting eggs on his farm in Romulus, N.Y. After buying a hobby farm on the cheap 20 years ago, McDonald ...