In 2017, the Tipton family — Benjamin, Michelle and two teenage children — returned to Vermont after nearly a decade away to establish a family farm. They found and purchased a 20-acre former ...

Larry Gerdes is having his barn taken down and disassembled in Malta Bend, Mo. It’s about the size of a three-car garage but stands much taller in a clearing surrounded by six-foot stalks of corn. The ...

This feature first ran in a special Farm News publication called Barns of Iowa, published Nov. 28, 2025. KAMRAR — “I wish this old barn could talk,” said Wayne Blue of the barn on the home farm where ...

If you live in the country and enjoy seeing wildlife on your land, you may want to reconsider tearing down that “old eyesore” in the corner of your field. The Ozarks countryside is dotted with barns, ...

Furniture craftsman Chris Brown built a large outdoor farm table for David and Gina Mussett that’s become an attraction at the couple’s front yard facing Edinboro Lake. The beauty, skill and ...

Cleaning out 60-plus years of accumulation of things from an old barn is a dirty job, writes Jenny Schlecht. She explains the process of clearing out the tornado-damaged building for a new barn. A ...

In addition to their frailty, old barns also are expensive to maintain, said Wallace Yoder, president of the Bloomington, Ill.-based BarnKeepers, which works to maintain barns, mainly in McLean County ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. “Amy builds. I un-build.” That is how Brett Trefethen captures the essence ...

Eric Jackson, owner of the Thomas McQuillan Farmstead, stands in front of the historic barn on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. Baldwin City resident Eric Jackson recently inherited a barn that has been in ...

Whether you drive into North Hartland or whiz past on Interstate 91, there’s no missing the Lemax Farm with its big bright-yellow barns towering over a bustling farmyard. “It’s an iconic structure in ...

Poznań-based design studio mode:lina recently transformed a decrepit old barn into the Ślonsko Chałpa (Silesian House), a light-filled home that beautifully combines elements of the agricultural ...