Amish population nearly doubles in 16 years - Yahoo! News

Why do you suppose this is?

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16 years to double...does not seem to great..and the numbers dont seem overly high...there land and homes and farms are breath taking...as for them living here in West Virginia..i am not familiar with that..most of those around here travel here from Ohio to sale there goods..I will have to check into where it is there suppose to be living here....I love there wood work...there foods ...there material there baskets...it feels good to pick things up that you know did not just come off of a machine but had an artist hands design ....but not to slight the things made of modern technology...i do think of the factory worker and the chain of command the level of trickle down to get what we do in stores...there are many hands involved with individual stories to tell...it all is important...

I've also heard that agricultural methods of the Amish are pretty effective.

There's a wikipedia article on their use of technology:

Amish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

- Art

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I have spent a great deal of time within the Amish community is southern Michigan and northern Indiana and, let me tell ya, the Amish are nothing short of amazing. They're hard working, extremely cooperative with one another, they're fiscally conservative, they have large families, and they invest in the future.

When I first ran across the Amish about 30 years ago, I thought them to be a bit on the "weird" side, but then after dealing with them for several years, I began to think that maybe we're the ones that are actually more "weird". They're the ones that know what they want and are willing to work hard to get it.

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Yes. One of the times I visited an Amish farm I saw how they dealt with fruit flies. They hung empty soup cans on several branches from their trees, and each soup can had holes in it and had a bit of honey at the bottom, and I was told that the flies went for the honey and not the fruit.

Dah! Why didn't I think of that with my trees?!

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Is the lesson here, befriend and feed the enemy, so they will leave you alone?

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Well I did some talking at work today...what a long day...but great one..anyway...it turns out there are some Amish just a few miles down the road...that bring there goods to be sold to one of the stores......I travel most every year to Ohio to there area where they sell there goods...

I don't know if you're aware of the fact that Holmes County, Ohio, has the largest Amish community in the U.S.. The second largest is the one I'm more familiar with in northern Indiana and southern Michigan, and the Lancaster County area in Pennsylvania is third.

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It is Ohio that i go to...and i am surprised of your info that the pennsylvania community is third in size...i thought it was larger...I am headed to Philly in a few weeks...Amish country does not look like it is going to make my destination list for this summer...but i will head there this fall if i dont make it in the next month.....thanks for the info...

Yes there are several Amish in Michigan!!

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