Metrofarm.com on the Amish

By borges, Section Radio Tower
Posted on Thu Sep 18, 2008 at 02:23:56 PM CST

Metrofarm covers ag issues from a different perspective and this week it is on the Amish. Not a topic covered very often and certainly pertinent to our condition here in the Kickapoo. Their press release follows with links to the program....

While we pull our plows with giant diesel-burning tractors, they pull theirs with teams of grass-eating horses. Speeding by, we look out the window and think, `How quaint.' But somewhere down the road we pause to ask....
Why the Amish boom midst all our secular gloom? (forum#605)
This Saturday at 9am Pacific, the Food Chain with Michael Olson hosts Elizabethtown College Professor Don Kraybill and carpenter Emmanuel Schwartz for a conversation about the booming Amish.
Listen on your radio, computer or IPOD anytime at Food_Chain_Radio
Topics include a brief look at the culture of the Amish; why the Amish community has doubled its population in the last 16 years; and what lessons, if any, we city people can learn from the Amish.