This is perhaps the rarest jewel that we have to offer this autumn—an almost once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet and observe the Amish community and its citizens going about their everyday business. We don’t have to tell you how lucky you are to have planned a visit for October, and how special you are (well, there, we’ve told you anyway). You’ll see their way of life, their culture, their skills, how they make their livelihoods – in a world without electric power.

This is so rare an event, we have a couple of rules for you. Use your Sunday manners (even though you’re visiting on Saturdays), ask before you even unsnap your camera case if you have permission to take a photograph, and donations are accepted for touring the homes, workshops and farms of the Amish, whom we can say have been a pleasure to work with in setting up this amazing opportunity. Before you come, speak to your friends who ride, or sew, or have weddings or births coming up—you’ll be visiting harness makers, dry good shops, and quilt makers, and who better to buy from than the source?

Plans for the 2008 tour are in progress.

Some links for more information:

• Photos of Amish people and culture
• Mennonite Historical Society of Canada
• History of the Amish People
• Culture and History of the Mennonites

Visit our members

• A Peace of Heaven B&B
• At the Crossroads Restaurant
• Castle Kilbride
• Village of Millbank