Trent Johnson didn鈥檛 grow up on a farm, but he was always enamored with the cowboy lifestyle.He sure looks the part now. I visited him in his custom鈥�

Jackie Dougan Jackson keeps a pretty thorough log of her life.The 85-year-old retired college professor lives in Springfield, Ill., and has lived there鈥�

In 1986, Becky Doyle was helping her husband run the family鈥檚 hog farming operation. She also had a sidelight business of marketing gift baskets made from鈥�

Amy Konishi says when her obituary is written it鈥檒l read, 鈥淎ll she knew was work.鈥滻t鈥檒l be a fitting tribute given the 87-year-old鈥檚 work ethic. As a鈥�

Johnson鈥檚 farm roots are in Moundville, Mo., a 124-person town near the Missouri-Kansas border.Monica Johnson, 36, watered edible yellow kale flowers on a鈥�

Mark Kenney and his family lived through the farm crisis of the 1980s, when the bottom dropped out of the U.S. economy and collapsing global food markets鈥�

Paul Horel says his childhood was pretty typical for a kid growing up in the Midwest in the 1950s: he did chores in the morning and evening, spent long鈥�

Kelly Hagler, 25, is among the millions of young people who have left rural communities for the bright lights of the city, in this case Chicago. But鈥�