Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kenny and Jamila McFarland, who lease the land, pose for a photo at the red barn at the Historic Monastery Farm in Huntsville ...

Members of religious orders have always had a need to garden, inspired no doubt by one of the Christian faith’s noted cultivators, Saint Fiacre, a green-fingered holy man who became the patron saint ...

PEOSTA, Iowa — The era of farming by New Melleray Abbey monks came to end Nov. 20 when the monastery’s farm machinery was auctioned in a hay field. The blustery day drew 500 auction goers bundled in ...

St. Stephen’s pumpkins grow at northern Utah’s Historic Monastery Farm.

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold turn the clock back 500 years to the early Tudor period to become tenant farmers on monastery land.