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wife and I took a day trip up into Holmes County Ohio, first time for me.

Went to two cheese factories (for lack of better word) and loaded up on fresh cheese and butter, went to an amazing grocery store that caters to Amish (or benefits from them) - their frozen food section wasn't anything formally packaged, just bags of locally grown fruits/vegetables like elderberries and rhubarb. Here is a picture of their meat counter. I bought a bottle of non homogenized chocolate milk among other things.



I didn't realize just how big the Amish country is up there - I'm guessing its probably 60 sq miles at least, with traditional homes and small burgs mixed in. One thing I noticed is the Amish are really big on solar panels and electric bicycles. They were riding those e-bikes all over the place

Another thing I liked was that about every 6 miles or so there was a general store or a convenience store that had a pretty big selection of everyday needs - only saw 1 dollar general but I wasn't really looking for them.

You want to talk about a safe place to live - at least from the threats of Norwegians and Messicans, then Holmes county seems like the place to be.

KFWA,
Been Down there before also and I agree as it's about an hour South of me. Very enjoyable and refreshing. Also an Hour east of me in Trumbull County is another similar berg Mesopotamia and surrounding. At our hunt camp in PA about an hour and a half farther East across the Ohio/PA line we have a smaller community of Amish that's very similar. Good Stuff.

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Lot's of Amish and Mennonites around me, and there are probably at least half a dozen of those kinds of stores within a 20 mile radius. Although they are stocked with goods that the Amish and Mennonites traditionally use, they are very dependent upon the "English" trade. I'd say the ones here probably have more English customers than Plain People, as the Amish and Mennonites like to be called. They usually have fair prices and good commodities, although you have to watch the expiration date on some things. I buy quite a lot from the one that's close to me.

We used to go to the Amish Buggy Races in that area.

Took my family down to rural south eastern MN to view the Amish Christmas light displays...

what would be the downside of living in that area?

We just started hunting in Monroe County this year and spent a 'work day' familiarizing ourselves with the area. Much higher population of Amish folk than where we 'normally' go every year. Found a small grocery stores that I much liked which looked similar to what you posted.

Nice area in general......and my time in NH is coming closer to an end every day.

Another thing they are big on is websites, I buy their products online, they are zippy shippers.

https://www.yoderscountrymarket.net/Grocery/folder/41

Yoder must be a common name or brand associated with Amish? There was some Yoder millworks and lumber in the area I was at

I could be wrong but sumtin has always made me feel like they are real friendly if you there with open wallet to buy their goods and eat at their restaurants but if you were trying to buy real estate within their community it'd be a whole nother thing

I think about 95% of the Amish are Yoders

#inbreeding

Yoder is the Goldstein of Amish

Our Amish drive F-350 and dudes wear Wranglers and pearl button rodeo shirts. Women still wear the lunch lady bonnet and don’t shave their mustaches. Pink or blue tie a porkchop around my neck to win a man. Emily Dickinson greasy hair laid down flat

Anyway we got the stores too. They got good deli meat. However it draws a legion of 400 lb dump truck guys want ONE SLICE OF EVERYTHING IN THE MEAT CASE on their fuggin Dagwood sandwiches. Takes 10 mins for that sheeit. GTF outta here.
Same lardass idiots at Publix want a slice of everything to ‘taste’ it. JFC, you want someone to feed you grapes too???
Their jams and jellies are good

Bunch of Stoltzfus around here. Yoder is them yanky ones.

I cut across Georgia south of Atlanta off I-75 to US 19 so I can have lunch at Yoder's Deitsch Haus near Montezuma.

All along that east/west stretch of rural 2 lane every business bares the Yoder name.

Once I get back into central Florida I'm greeted by the

Yoder Farms sign thats near by.

If I’m in Georgia I stop at Carroll’s sausage and meats.
Fk the amish😃

Carrolls is like a Hell for vegetarians

A lot of that kind of stuff is bought in very large bulk containers, then put in the pint and quart jars with a store label on it, leading the customer to believe that Ma Yoder herself picked those blackberries and made that jelly on her wood burning stove.

How do I know...........let's just say that an ex member of the cult revealed a lot of secrets to me.

After my wife and I toured Gettysburg battlefield for 3 days I drove over to Amish country for 3 days and looked around. It struck me how good the crops and farms looked and there were no John Deere tractors parked around. The Amish apparently are pretty good at arithmetic and know the difference between gross and net. There were huge piles of composted manure and I noticed the corn stalks were not as close together as they are where commercial fertilizer is used. The alfalfa fields were beautifully green and lush. The alfalfa is the fuel for their cars and tractors. With all the deer in Pennsylvania I wonder if the Amish take advantage of that meat source.

Most of my Mennonite neighbors came here from Pennsylvania. They were amazed at the number of deer we had here, and are crazy over deer hunting. They said there were very few left in their part of PA.

Amish Plumber I dealt with, his neighbor had two whitetail bucks in a 4-5 acre pen. Said he lets a man come out and ‘hunt’ them with a bow.
Over near Herndon.
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