reporting from PIÑON HILLS — Anyone lucky enough to taste genuine barnyard chickens knows they have much more flavor than bland industrially farmed birds crammed into huge factories.

NASHVILLE, Ill. — The owner of a popular petting zoo is fighting a proposal that would put a cell phone tower roughly 350 feet tall next to his family farm. If you head west on Route 15 out of ...

Alan Blumhorst, owner of Rainbow Ranch and petting zoo in rural Nashville, is shown with Ziggy the Zebra next to his colorful red barn. Provided Alan Blumhorst begins his tours at Rainbow Ranch with ...

Alan Blumhorst begins his tours at Rainbow Ranch with the story of Johann and Maria Mangenalker, a German couple who established the farm in 1850 in Washington County. The immigrants could never have ...