NEW PALESTINE — Several years ago, Donna Cain’s sister Denise Shields told her the family farm in New Palestine needed to be recorded and recognized by state officials as a Hoosier Homestead. Tim Cain ...

Carla Clark | For The Republic Jerry McKinney, Janet McKinney, Austin McKinney and Chris McKinney at McKinney Farms, established 1883, a Hoosier Homestead Farm, owned by the same family for over 100 ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Acre after acre of dark green soybean leaves flowed in a rolling motion, pushed by the warm summer breeze. Some 80 acres of land known as the Snodgrass Farm is filled with hundreds ...

An aerial view of some of the outbuildings at the Van Nuys Farm, which was established in Hopewell in 1847 and remained in the family ever since. The farm was awarded the Hoosier Homestead ...

Descendants and members of the Johnson-Bey farm family receive their Hoosier Homestead Award at the Indiana State Fair this month. This summer’s only local recipient of the Hoosier Homestead Award ...

WAYNESBORO, Ga. (WJBF) – The Scott Family Farm has Christmas trees, honeybees and everything in between. In this episode of Your Hometown Roadtrip, Brandon Dawson and the team visits Scott Family Farm ...

More than 100 Indiana family farms – including several in the northeast part of the state – are Hoosier Homestead Award recipients. The homestead awards are for farms owned by the same family for more ...

Jeff and Sharon Beck of Bargersville pose on their farm near their Hoosier Homestead plaque. The Hoosier Homestead award is a state program honoring farms that have remained in the same family for ...

TIPPECANOE COUNTY, Ind. — The Meisenhelder-Jones farm has been the family business for more than 100 years. In fact, the farm, located in Tippecanoe County, has been a family operation since 1859, an ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WANE) – At the Indiana State Fair, Lt. Gov Suzanne Crouch and Indiana State Department of Agriculture Director Bruce Kettler presented 73 family farms with a Hoosier Homestead Award, ...

In 1984, a determined back-to-earther named Jules Dervaes Jr. brought his wife and children from a 10-acre farm in rural Florida to study theology in Pasadena but ultimately decided on a different ...