"C'mon there, we're headed home", an Amish farmer calls encouragingly to his span of seven mules. Such sights are common along Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's country roads as spring filed work progresses.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
An Amish boy gets a free ride home in Lancaster County. Amish farmers still use horses and mules to plow their farm fields and they produce yields that rival modern farming methods.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
An Amish boy gets a free ride home in Lancaster County. Amish farmers still use horses and mules to plow their farm fields and they produce yields that rival modern farming methods.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
For Amish farmers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, late summer signals long days and a bountiful wheat harvest. The traditional farming "tools" of an Old Order Amishman are the help of his sons and his team of horses, rather than the mechanized equipment of his neighbors.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Tillers of the field: Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's Amish farmers adhere strictly to the use of horse or mule drawn equipment to perform their field labors. Despite the modern equipment used by their neighbors, the Amish contribute an abundant proportion of the annual harvest.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Horses rather than tractors cultivate fields. This preference for animal and human labor has freed the Amish from fossil fuel dependency, one of the hallmarks of Schumacher's vision of a frugal conserver society.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania's field patchwork, barns, silos and peaceful skyline create a scenic backdrp for an Amish farmer at tobacco planting time in late May. Production of cigar filler tobacco is well-suited to Amish farming methods which rely on family labor and mule-drawn equipment.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
Telephones are banned from Old-Order Amish homes for many philosophical reasons. However, business demands have dictated a compromise in telephone usage. "Community phones" can be found in a shanty at the end of a farm lane or in the barn, but never in the home.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
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.
Despite agricultural mechanization, tobacco remains a highly laobr-intensive crop, ideally suited to the farming methods used by the Amish in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This Amishman and his son are harvesting the tobacco leaves, which are cut and hung on lathes to dry - one of the first steps toward the eventual manufacture of cigars.
Provenance
Photographs and slides donated by Discover Lancaster/Pennsylvania Dutch Country Visitors Bureau, June 2016.
