Amish Business

So Amish auctions returning is one sign that things are getting back to normal – at least in some places. Below I’ve posted the bill for a school sale this Saturday in Sheldon, Wisconsin (Rusk County). This is not the only Amish auction activity out there. The Kootenai Amish School Auction will also take place […]

Continue Reading Amish Auctions Happening In Some States; Mud Sales Remain Stuck In The Mud

I’m seeing more and more examples of Amish business maps, both online and off. To give a few examples, there are the multiple maps in Ethridge, Tennessee, the map we saw last week from the small Whitefield, Maine community, and this online map of the Conewango Valley, New York settlement, with over 180 Amish businesses […]

Continue Reading Amish Business Map – Livingston County, New York

As we learned in last year’s post on 5 interesting facts about Lehman’s, the customer makeup of this simple products retailer is more English than Amish (by a factor of 4 to 1). And the product line reflects this to some extent. The company has a wide array of products fitting the “old-fashioned/off-grid” concept. But […]

Continue Reading 6 Lehman’s Products Used By The Amish

Back in February I shared with you 57 Amish businesses you can visit in Ethridge, Tennessee. This was based on a visitor’s map given out at a local business. Reader Al in KY has gone one better, and passed along a much fuller guide to Amish businesses in the community for your enjoyment. Says Al: […]

Continue Reading Pot Holders, Crib Quilts, Pickled Okra & More: A Week’s Worth Of Amish Home Businesses

In another sign that business is on the way back in Amish and other areas, Amish Acres is reopening following re-branding as The Barns at Nappanee: They got a small taste of business by selling about 100 take home meals Saturday for Mother’s Day. And plan to open the restaurant at 50 percent capacity next […]

Continue Reading Amish Acres Reopens Friday As The Barns At Nappanee

With much of the country’s bricks-and-mortar economy shut down, e-commerce has been thriving. Ohio-based Lehman’s – specializing in off-the-grid and old-fashioned items – is one business that has seen its sales spike. The Wooster Daily Record looks at Lehman’s experience over the past couple months. Some products have been in especially high demand. So what […]

Continue Reading Lehman’s Sees Online Sales Surge

Trade publication Furniture Today gives an optimistic look at how the Amish furniture industry is positioned to rebound once states “reopen,” and business can start getting back to something like normal. They spoke with several sources, including Roy Miller who is CEO of a large-for-the-Amish manufacturer which, like many others, has been shut down for […]

Continue Reading Amish Furniture Makers Ready For Restart

Walking into the auction with the day growing long and things winding down, I knew exactly what I was looking for. When I spotted a stand with baked goods, I beelined over. The stand owner had set up under the porch of one of the farmhouses on the auction property, there in the Ethridge, Tennessee […]

Continue Reading Baked Goods by Mary Mast (Ethridge, Tennessee)

New York Upstate lists the 12 destinations, which I call “food outlets” because they are not all traditional shops and markets, though some are. Several are multi-vendor markets. Most of these are Mennonite-owned or “Amishy“, but there are at least two Amish-owned markets on the list – Troyer’s General Store, and Weaver’s Farm Market. Many […]

Continue Reading 12 Amish & Mennonite Food Outlets in Upstate NY

Good news for those who wish to see this northern Indiana tourist institution continue: Amish Acres will live on, in somewhat different form, under new ownership. The people who purchased the key parcels of property will continue the venue as a food and entertainment destination. However they are re-branding the attraction under a different name: […]

Continue Reading Amish Acres Will Continue; Rebrands as “The Barns at Nappanee”