Framed by the birds in the sky and the rich earth below, Lancaster County's Old-Order Amish farmers use horse and mule-drawn plows to till their fields as they have for many generations before them.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Following his father's footsteps, an Amish boy tags along as his father uses a mule-drawn grain drill to make a spirng platning of soubeans, spring oats or afalfa. On farms averaging 55 acres, Amish farmers using similar methods till a quarter of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's 336,150 acres.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.