OLIVET, S.D. -- A spaghetti dinner with people in prairie dress and a church service in German is all in a day's work for Kerri Lutjens. The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the ...

Hutterite colonies, known for running progressive, diversified farms, could become drivers for rural economic development and value-added processing, Kevin Hursh writes.

The 33-year-old nurse, who doesn't speak German, has spent the past few years gaining the trust of several communities of Hutterites, a deeply religious people with ancestral ties to the Amish who ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - Parts of the former Park Ace Hardware building here will be reused by Hutterites for other construction. Two Hutterite colonies began razing the building on Highway 71 near ...

GRAND FORKS - A new reality TV show about life in a Hutterite colony in Montana gives outsiders a glimpse of a unique religious culture centered in the Northern Plains of North America. But it's also ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - Parts of the former Park Ace Hardware building here will be reused by Hutterites for other construction. Two Hutterite colonies began razing the building on Highway 71 near ...

RYEGATE, Mont. (AP) - 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 ...

On a rainy Sunday evening following the first of its Long Table dinner series, the kitchen staff at The Resort at Paws Up collectively dug into a strawberry-rhubarb pie. "We brought out the forks and ...

To most Montanans, Hutterites are the simply dressed vendors at local farmers markets. Their produce is a testament to their dedicated agrarian lifestyle. It's not often that outsiders are invited to ...

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 ...

Both colony and general councils, like the Quakers, try to avoid action without unanimity; and since the Hutterite way of life is the end-product of almost every conceivable testing, this unanimity is ...