On Nov. 22 an Associated Press article revealed the U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the LaMoure, N.D., Hutterite colony to discontinue selling poultry in North Dakota for having failed to meet ...

‘The community had 11,000 chickens and every able-bodied person helped out during the two days of butchering’ The Hutterites are an Anabaptist movement – they believe in adult baptism and pacifism.

It’s 7 a.m., and the fluorescent light in the Mountain View Colony egg barn lends a bluish tinge to the austere coats of the Hutterite men waiting for Joe Kleinsasser to trip the switch on the “Big ...

BILLINGS – Last spring, members of the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony plowed under their lentil field and on the land began construction of a manufacturing plant. The structure, now nearly complete, ...

Jason Waldner could easily still be working in the chicken barn of a North Dakota Hutterite colony. It’s the job he was given, but not the job he chose. Instead, he is a partner in a construction and ...

In a barn as long as a football field, located on the Golden Valley Hutterite Colony outside Ryegate, 12,000 chickens lay 800 dozen salable eggs each day, according to Edward J. Kleinsasser, who's ...

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 ...

Doubts about the Hutterite way of life became overwhelming as Glenda Maendel prepared for her baptism. The daughter of the minister on her North Dakota colony, Maendel wrote that she “knew in my heart ...