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  • For a change of pace, consider ending your Mother's Day with a potluck dinner around a gently-burning campfire. (Katie Pratt)

    Our Rural Roots

    Mother's Day can be about more than gift giving.

  • If your Gator is riding rough, check the wear on the rubber suspension bushings. (Steve Thompson)

    Ask the Mechanic

    Steve Thompson answers readers' questions about all things mechanical.

  • (Artur, Getty Images)

    Family Business Matters

    Family farms face substantial risks. Building resilience requires valuing family bonds over business preservation, exploring all options openly, reframing difficulties positively and maintaining realistic optimism while confronting harsh realities.

  • (Chris Campbell)

    Our Rural Roots

    Blogger reflects on the planter that gave her confidence to become the person in charge of planting all the soybeans on her family's farm and to grow as a capable farmer.

  • Ainsworth High School, Ainsworth, Nebraska, where the author graduated from in 1993 with his class of about 65 students (Anthony Greder)

    We'd Like To Mention

    The challenges currently facing rural America are real with aging populations, workforce shortages, policy uncertainty and infrastructure gaps. But, so is the capacity to respond.

  • (Meredith Bernard)

    Our Rural Roots

    Blogger looks back on her writing journey, and she encourages others to write and tell their own stories.

  • (Courtesy of Tiffany Dowell Lashmet)

    Our Rural Roots

    Each year at the state fair, this blogger's children make signs about their show animals to encourage conversations with the fair's visitors.

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