Living the Amish Life

Yesterday we visited The Farm at Walnut Creek in Holmes County Ohio. This very large farm has been transformed into a tourist destination for those who want the beautiful serinity of rolling Ohio hills and the amazing good food and pasteries provided by the Amish community in the area between Sugar Creek and Wooster.

The Farm provides a safe and exciting opportunity to interact with a large menagerie of animals from all over the world. They come up to your car, you roll down the window and they eat from your hand or a plastic bowl provided when you buy the feed. They are mostly quite polite, some more hungery than others. It takes about 45 minutes and who can forget having a giraffe put its head in your car.

http://www.thefarmatwalnutcreek.com/

However, it is when you finish the ride through the outdoor zoo that you really have a cultural adventure. The family who created the farm also created a fully functional Amish farm and you can walk through the farm buildings, stables and even the large home and visit with women and men who are working at their crafts and trades; sewing, mending, cleaning, building and simply maintaining their uniquely simple and beautful lives.

The Amish have specific beliefs related to technology that I can't quite figure out. For example, there are solar panels on the house, but there are no wires connecting the house to outside world. They supply all their electricity from the panels or natural gas generators. More later Sphere: Related Content