Do Amish visit doctors? The short answer is yes, but it depends – on the situation, individual, and other factors. In addition, Amish people make use of a range of health and wellness solutions outside of conventional medicine. I explain in this video and briefly go through five of them. If you’d prefer to read […]

Continue Reading The Amish & Health Care (Video)

This story won’t make this guy’s parents proud….and unfortunately it’s not an isolated incident in this community (Geauga County, Ohio). A 21-year-old Amish male struck a police cruiser while passed out drunk in a moving buggy. Here’s the gist of what happened May 14 via WKYC: The horse didn’t come to a stop and continued […]

Continue Reading Footage Shows Passed-Out Amish Driver In Moving Buggy…Then Hits Police Car

We’ve seen a number of examples of Amish “shop homes”, but I believe this is the first “barn home” I’ve come across online. Here’s the key bit from the listing: “The barn and house were built as one unit, having the three bedroom home on the east side of this large building.” You can see […]

Continue Reading Inside an Amish “Barn Home” (17 Photos)

As we enter the prime season for fresh produce, I thought this might be a good topic to address. I suspect most in the public would assume that Amish-grown food (and dairy) is organic, although that’s not really the case. While there are certainly organic farmers among the Amish, and organic farming has grown in […]

Continue Reading Three Reasons Why Amish Food Isn’t Organic (Video)

This Amish farm property in Newark Valley, New York has only a handful of interior photos, but caught my attention for several reasons. The first thing was this sign out front: I’ve noted before how the Amish typically do not use the word “Amish” in their marketing. But in a recent video on the subject […]

Continue Reading Plain New York Amish Farmhouse For Sale (17 Photos)

Don Burke shares photos from three businesses in the Clark, Missouri Amish community. This is the state’s second-largest Amish settlement, of around 10 churches and 1,500 people, and one of the three oldest in the state. We previously saw this community in Don’s photo post from 2015, “A Thanksgiving Visit to The Amish of Clark, […]

Continue Reading A Look Inside 3 Different Amish Stores (22 Photos)

I have written a lot about visiting new Amish communities (new for me, that is) over the years. And so this past December when on a trip through Kentucky, Virginia and Ohio, I filmed what it is like for me when I go to a new community. As I’ve written before, I usually just try […]

Continue Reading Visiting An Amish Community For The First Time (Video)

Two springs ago, there was a particularly tragic story out of Bath County, Kentucky. High waters overcame an Amish buggy, overturning it in a swollen creek. Five children were washed away and lost their lives. Now, local non-Amish efforts are seeking to help get weather alerts to Amish in this community. The answer appears to […]

Continue Reading Plain-Friendly “Amish Radio” Initiative Seeks To Save Lives Following Tragedy

Two years ago I shared a post on seven Amish homes I’d found for sale online in just one community – Hillsboro, Kentucky. Today we look at another I came across. When I was in this community in December, an Amishman I spoke with made reference to a number of their people moving out and […]

Continue Reading Another Amish Home For Sale in this Kentucky Community (31 Photos)

One misconception that I see often enough is the idea that Amish homes don’t have curtains covering their windows. There is an idea out there that curtains signify vanity and thus Amish don’t have them. I can see the kernel of truth this may have emerged from (Amish tend to shy away from things that […]

Continue Reading Do Amish Homes Have Curtains & Shutters? (Video)