OMAHA — Have any unused farm equipment? Donate it. Tractors for Peace hopes to harvest unused Midlands farm equipment to plant crops in developing nations. Gene Chase, executive director and ...

On Thursday, the Johnson County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a $24,671 change order for the ongoing Historic Poor Farm Kitchen renovation project. The Historic Poor Farm opened its doors ...

At last, I have reached the “Poor House,” known as the “Poor Farm.” The latter does not jar quite as harshly on one’s ear as the first. Manifestly, he who ...

The town Select Board has hit the brakes on plans to put 35 affordable apartments on the final undeveloped acres of the town's farm, once a refuge for the homeless.

Good or bad, the poor farm has its place in our history Some considered poor farms cruel, others saw them as places to help people get back on their feet after a time of crisis.

The Poor Farm was also home to a pauper's cemetery, or "potter's field." The first recorded burials date to spring 1860. The dead were buried in plain caskets in graves often dug by fellow residents.

Skeletal remains uncovered from a “historic poor farm” in 1999 were from the 1800s, New Hampshire officials said. They were reburied.

Five years later the poor farm itself was described as “a handsome well-cared-for tract” four miles south and a bit east of Fremont with its county board appointed supervisor paid $50 a month.