Authored by Allan Stein via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),
Among the historic Amish settlements in southeastern Pennsylvania, faith, fidelity, and long days working in green fields are the root of traditional farming.
Together, they support and nourish a community and culture steeped in biblical teachings.
In Lancaster County, west of Philadelphia, the Amish hold fast with many of the old ways. Their primary means of getting around is still horse and buggy, and they use herbal remedies for many common ailments.
The Amish of Lancaster County are also a humble and private people (many Amish do not like having their photograph taken or name publicized). Shunning pride and vanity, they experience a particular joy and satisfaction in living close to the earth, free of the stress and pressures of outside worldly entanglements.
Many Amish still speak a German dialect called “Pennsylvania Dutch,” living and conducting themselves in an uncomplicated manner.
Traditional clothing—long dresses, aprons, and bonnets for women; trousers, shirts, jackets, and hats for men—distinguishes them from the world of “the English,” the term used to denote non-Amish.
The peaceful simplicity of Amish life has its allure and also everyday challenges and economic realities interacting with the larger society around them.
Some small multi-generational farm owners, like Jesse Lapp, try to adapt to these influences through “agri-tourism” and diversification into the trades, while still passing their wisdom and traditional farming methods down from generation to generation.
“If you don’t pass on the techniques from one generation to the next, it gets lost,” said Lapp, 44, owner of Old Windmill Farm in Ronks, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated farming community 63 miles from Philadelphia.
“Farming is not a textbook,” said the farmer, who learned how to work the land from his father, who learned it from his father and those before him.
“You learn things from your parents, from experiences, what your parents struggled with. You learn from that.”
However, strictly organic farmers in Lancaster County, like Amos Miller, are confronted with government regulations they see as hostile to Christian values and personal choices in producing food.
Today, Miller, 45, is at the center of a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) lawsuit accusing him of violating federal food safety laws.
There have been financial penalties and threats of jail time over selling non-federally inspected and “erroneously labeled” milk and meat at Miller’s Organic Farm of Bird-In-Hand, Pennsylvania.
Miller views the case as government overreaches targeting small organic farms to regulate them out of existence.
“There are many farmers that would like to continue to be farmers,” Miller told The Epoch Times.
“It’s in our culture. We love farming. But the food system is so monopolized and regulated that we can’t be true farmers. You can’t make a living on the farm.”
The Amish in the United States consists of four primary groups: Beachy Amish, Amish Mennonites, New Order, and Old Order Amish whose forebears fled religious persecution in Europe during the early 18th century. They have different views regarding the use of modern technology.
“The Amish do not consider technology evil in itself, but they believe that technology if left untamed will undermine worthy traditions and accelerate assimilation into the surrounding society,” according to the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown College on its Amish Studies website.
“Mass media technology, in particular, they fear, would introduce foreign values into their culture. By bringing greater mobility, cars would pull the community apart, eroding local ties.
“Horse-and-buggy transportation keeps the community anchored in its local geographical base.”
As a population, the Amish are among the fastest-growing in America, with more than 300,000 located in 32 states. More than 60 percent of the Amish live in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana in local congregations called church districts.
In Lancaster County, the Amish population is approximately 45,000 adults and children.
Old Windmill is a fourth-generation family farm on 65 acres, raising about a dozen head of cattle, pigs, goats, chickens, and horses and mules. The owner said he decided to expand into agri-tourism to supplement cash flow.
“Bigger farms is the way to make a living,” the owner told The Epoch Times. “Everything is mass produced. When my grandfather was farming, they had a chicken house. They had some eggs to sell. They had a tobacco barn right here.”
He said Old Windmill Farm left dairy farming as it became more labor intense and costly. His crops include rye, corn, alfalfa, and soybeans, rotating with the seasons. He uses an old hay baler drawn by four mules, a hay rake, and other gasoline-driven engines.
“We don’t have modern machines; we have machines manufactured maybe in the 50s. Some are antique machines as well,” he said.
A local metal fabricator makes parts to repair the machines when they break down.
“There are diversified farms” using more modern tools, the owner said. “We’re sort of die-hard” using older technology.
A typical day at Old Windmill Farm begins at dawn when the lights go on, and the roosters start crowing.
“If you’re a farmer in the Amish community, you get up around 4:30 or quarter of five,” he said.
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First they came for the Dutch farmers , then the Amish…….
No farmers = No food.
I know surplus humans when I see them. Some of them reside in DC and almost are associated with a government.
Conspirators’ Hierarchy is available for free download from — surprise — http://www.cia.gov …
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/4A/4A92FD2FB4DAE3F773DB0B7742CF0F65_Coleman.-.CONSPIRATORS.HIERARCHY.-.THE.STORY.OF.THE.COMMITTEE.OF.300.R.pdf
No farmers, no grain and no soy.
It may give us calories but it ain’t food anymore.
They get to do this because the larger continent they exist on is protected by us military and nuclear weapons. these people are selfish, insane, and should be outlawed. absolutely nothing of value with them
/s?
Abolish the state.
Live more like the Amish.
Feel free to display your brainwashing like a deranged peacock.
Curious what value you are.
Less than zero.
Worse, they pick their own cotton. Dats rayciss.
“…-then the government came and blew up a train load of toxic chemicals in Amish country.”
FIFY
BTW, those animals helping to bail hay are not horses.
Mules. And not likely they are already bailing hay in April.
Baling
bale
I am▪️i▪️shed 🎶 ~ neal diamond, after a bottle of cracklin’ rosie
Always the troublemakers.
Those are mules
Should have checked the comments before I posted. You’re absolutely correct! I’m glad I’m not the only one who knows the difference.
You bigoted, racist, speciesist, misogynist……
They IDENTIFY as horses…..
Hybrid vigor amirite?
Miscegenation ftw.
The Amish do have a dark side when considering the treatment of young girls and women .
They do pay taxes and must produce to do so .
I do not believe they involve their young men with military obligations even as support as conscientious objectors similar to Desmond Doss .
So they are not all the biblical goodie goodies .
Though I think most are true to their faith !
Neither the Amish,nor any other group are saints.However,when the American shyteshow finally collapses,they at least know how to farm the old fashioned way.
I keep seeing the ones here letting their womenfolk drive.
Heresy.
They are 100% correct about technology. In the wrong hands it is dehumanizing and evil.
Royals have always been evil.
“In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.”
According to the Daily Express, the quote originates from a 1988 interview that Prince Philip … gave to Deutsche Press-Agentur.
Big ears talks ” Great Reset ”
The only royal worth a dam was Diana and look what they did to her.
The government is only there to help the Amish!
“Most Terrifying Words – ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” – Ronald Reagan
Those ARE NOT “horses”. Those are MULES.
SMFH.
The Amish know that they’re mules … that’s what matters.
Make friends with some b4 it is too late. I’m glad I live around them and know some.
Do you think the Amish have problem with fags in their order? Do they have to deal with their kids coming to them and telling them they want to be the opposite sex? Do you see crime occuring in the Amish communities? ‘
I know the answer to those questions as I have Amish around me. I get along with the Amish and trade with them. They don’t have a fag or tranny problem. Their daughters aren’t coming home knocked up by Jamal. Their sons aren’t sipping soy lattes and wondering what EV they want to drive, they are men.
Clearly that answers the problems facing American society, doesn’t it? The Amish have principals, rules, order, and morals. As a result they are normal people, not freaks walking around.
Quite so – exactly my position: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w
The Amish aren’t brainwashed by MSM or Hollywood. They know right from wrong.
They also don’t suffer from autism from being vaxxed as children.
Yep, the one eye mind sucker makes all the difference. Have seen it first hand. Had an uncle who married this gal that had like 4 kids, and then add a couple of his. They were living on the property in WV and they were doing pretty well trying to live a moral life, not that that sort of situation isn’t hard and they didn’t have ups and downs.
The one thing they didn’t have was TV. In fact, he threw the one he had out the upstairs window an for good measure shot it with the shotgun.
Anyways, other uncle (who is a demon in sheep clothes, so I doubt that helped) talked him into taking the show to North Carolina so they could open an alternate medicine clinic, and were doing quite well (despite the other uncle).
So coming back from Florida, we stopped in to see him, and the one eyed villain (no not the other uncle, the TV) had returned and it was central to the household.
Complete night and day. Uncle was still doing all right for the most part, and remained faithful to the faith till the end, as much as he could being flawed like we all are. But you could tell the influence of the evil one (besides the other uncle) had crept back in and was doing its work.
The wife on the other hand, who I always considered the back bone of the faith, when she came to his funeral looked like a Babylonian whore.
Ackshually, I’ve seen all but the trannies and lattes in communities like these.
You know what? I bet Russia does not even HAVE hypersonic missles off the east coast.
Video or it is a lie.
I live in Amish country. They are the nicest people you could hope to meet. They also have the cognitive dissonance gene as the leading photo shows. They also don’t own cars but hire auto drivers all the time. Some used to have little out-house looking shacks out next to the road for their telephone so it wouldn’t be in the house. Now they mostly use cell phones. Their close cousins, the plain Mennonites, drive tractors that must have steel wheels. More distant relatives may drive cars, but they must be black, have black bumpers and hub-caps. Amish youth are permitted to be wild, but once they join the church formally, they have to, and do, walk the straight and narrow. An Amish person may choose not to join the church and may still remain close to family and friends. But, if one joins and then leaves the church, they will be shunned by all Amish church members, including wives, children, and parents. Also, an Amishman will never lie to you, but you have to ask the right question.
Sounds like a sort of cult then? Like the JW maybe? I applaud their principles but regret the evangelical approach. Let’s test it using the Covidian Cult as an example:
https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-covidian-cult-is-global-453
Do you mean evangelical as spreading their message or as being reborn? Or rebaptised in their case.
It’s the need to join their ‘church’ if one requires to join their community. I envision a similar localisation system model but without the mandates. E.g. JW require a range of mandates before acceptance into their cult. If you ‘sin’ – eg divorce/adultery – you are cast out – classic cult test.
I studied the Bible with JW for 2 years until I asked to see their financials. They don’t publish any. I asked how I would know who is funding JW but all they said was that they trust this group of 7 elders in NY. I went no further.
This is my preferred model: https://austrianpeter.substack.com/p/the-financial-jigsaw-part-2-localisation?s=w