How now, brown cow? That question may typically be asked only during elocution practice, but visitors to a farm in the Alps can ask it and actually mean it—as they ride atop a traditional Swiss cow.

Set yourself down in 1876. Florida is frontier wilderness, Ulysses S. Grant is president and cattle is king. Beneath gnarled oak trees on the Kissimmee Prairie, “cow hunter” Henry Acker has a campfire ...

Hannah Simpson jumps over large logs on the back of a dairy cow. "Why ride a horse when you can ride a cow?" the dairy farmer asks on Facebook, where people have started noticing her unlikely pastime.

Homeschooling has been an opportunity for some Victorian students to push the boundaries and see what adventure can be had in their backyard. Home schooling can be full of distractions Sophie ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...