This is the second of two columns about harvest time at the Forest River Hutterite Colony. You go west three miles out of Inkster, N.D., and 2 miles north on a gravel road. Then you dip down into the ...

MARTINSDALE - In his black coat and hat, perched nearly 80 feet in the air atop a wind turbine, Peter Wipf cuts an intriguing figure. To the north of Wipf, a string of matching towers - 11 of them ...

Oct. 15—INKSTER, N.D. — On a busy October morning during the potato harvest, Solomon Maendel thanks God for the year's bountiful crop. Throughout the day, dozens of semis will line up at the Forest ...

A year ago, the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony in Ryegate launched a steel fabrication operation after leaders there realized they needed to do something different. Hutterites have farmed and raised ...

STANFORD - The Surprise Creek Colony will be an attendance center under Stanford School instead of Geyser School, which has been linked with the colony for nearly 30 years. A few years ago, officials ...

When someone leaves a Hutterite colony, it’s an ache like no other for those left behind, wrote Linda Maendel in her book, “Hutterite Diaries.” “From the cradle to the grave, Hutterites are cared for ...

INKSTER, N.D. - It's too late for much of the area's potato crop, but many spud fields would benefit from a good rain, and soon. "If it's in a day or two days or five days - rain would help," said ...