Across rural communities, big, old barns have offered many things to the farm families who owned them over the decades, most of them quite practical. But in the eyes of the youngest of those ...

Consider adapting old barns to new uses when it is no longer possible to keep them for farming. Conversions to housing, offices, warehousing, retail use, restaurants, and community and recreational ...

Messenger photo by Lyn Vandebrake Richard and Marsha Adams pose by the red barn, one of two 100-year-old-plus barns on their farm. STRATFORD — Two barns, almost a century old, stand on their ...