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FROM YELLOWSTONE TO OUTER RANGE TO 1923, THE WESTERN IS BACK IN ACTION--BUT LIVING THE WILD WEST LIFE MIGHT NOT MEAN YOU HAVE TO MOVE THERE. I WAS STEELING myself [...]

Huckleberries Are My Weakness I AM AN URBAN HUNTER-GATHERER AND I AM SHOPPING AT CAPERS, an organic grocery store in Vancouver's West End. I step silently from ceramic tile to [...]

Byline: Photographed by Oliver Hadlee Pearch. BY CHIARA BARZINI Postcards From Italy In the northern region of Liguria, short dresses and breezy blouses signal a summer of sun-kissed days-and nights [...]

Byline: BY BELINDA HUIJUAN TANG Photographed by Reven Lei. COUNTRY PURSUITS Amid the wide grasslands and splendid mountains of Sichuan, in southwestern China, prim jackets and long, romantic skirts outfit [...]

I have a lawn now. Soon I won't. The lawn I have has a regional name, the Catskill lawn, which indicates its impossibility. With preparation and vigilance, you can maintain [...]

Our first winters in the country, our driveway was plowed by a friend of a friend who did it almost as a lark. A twelve-pack of beer was his price [...]

If you live in the woods, you have to deal with trees. There's no way around it. When we came back from an errand the other day I saw, as [...]

IT was an especially contemporary experience, and an unpleasant one, to learn of the death of my friend Doug on Twitter. The backstory: Doug went into the hospital at the [...]

When Judaism, that radioactive element, decays, it becomes other elements on the periodic table of the mind. Some would say Christianity is one such. Marx and Freud are more recent [...]

It feels a privilege to step out and vanish into the seeming nothingness of fog. The unseen speaks to the possibility and mystery in all things Where I live, the [...]

Summoned near the end, I drove far, those many miles inconsequential to the real distance that always remains. Cradling photos, catalogs, and Whatnot---evidence of a life lived and family loved [...]

There is no end to the funny stuff that goes on around animals, and you have just got to laugh or it will make you crazy. When I tell people [...]

In June 2004, my wife, Summer, and I arrived at the 40 vacant acres of grass and woods we had just purchased, nestled in the hills of southwest Wisconsin. Summer [...]

My usual response when asked where I grew up is 'You've probably never heard of it.' Newport, Wash., population 2,000, is in the mountains of eastern Washington, about 70 miles [...]

The author describes her reassertion of self identity after moving from the East Coast to settle with her boyfriend in his home state of Wyoming.

The season's first snowfall, between Hanukkah and Christmas, left gifts of varying sizes in different parts of the state. One small city to our west received 40 inches, collapsing the [...]

By now the throbbing, hollow notes of the Norton are comfortably familiar. They reverberate off the sheer walls of a canyon in northern Colorado, where I am putting the Norton [...]

The author recounts growing up in a small rural town and the difficulty of navigating ethnic background, consanguinity, and self identity.

Byline: BY JOSEPH MITCHELL DAYS IN THE BRANCH Remembering the South in the city. J oseph Mitchell was born in 1908 into a prosperous family of North Carolina cotton and [...]

The first time I found an egg in the henhouse, I almost crowed. You'd think I had laid that first egg myself. I just never realized how much pleasure one [...]

Something strange was going on with the chickens, and someone's bird-brained mistake was to blame. He goes by several names. Rooster. Cock. Cockerel, Chanticleer. Capon, perhaps, if he has had [...]

Byline: EDITOR: SARAH BROWN THE COUNTRY LIFE TWO WOMENONE FROM MIAMI, THE OTHER FROM NEW YORKLEFT THE CITY FOR THE RUSTIC OUTDOORS. ONE FOUND A NEW CALLING IN SKIN CARE; [...]

For a curious young mind, an emu farm is a fitting place to grow up. sarah venn, 24, knows this well. she spent her childhood revelling in nature on her [...]

Byline: Joanna Egan MICK BLACKMAN IS no stranger to the road less travelled. Having lived in far north Queensland for most of his adult life, he has spent many wet [...]

It was a scene that had occurred often over the past 30 years. I was standing in the bed of our pickup truck and my husband was on a tall [...]

Living on a small piece of land and engaging in activities that keep alive the skills of our grandparents' age is an unabashed statement of hope in the frenetic and [...]