Other Resources on Amish Culture

Amish Values for Your Family mentioned a host of resources for learning more about the Amish.  I’d like to share some of them here.  I’ve also done a bit of research to include other relevant websites, which were referenced implicitly though the web address was not always included in the book itself.  Enjoy!

·         Mary Ann Kinsinger’s blog about her childhood in an Old Order Amish community A Joyful Chaos: http://ajoyfulchaos.blogspot.com/

·         Non-Amish environmental activist Cheryl Harner’s blog called Weedpicker’s Journal: http://cherylharner.blogspot.com/  (Her time bird watching at an Amish farm is memorialized at: http://cherylharner.blogspot.com/search?q=amish)

·         Erik Wesner’s blog AmishAmerica: http://amishamerica.com/

·         David and Elsie Kline’s quarterly magazine on farming in harmony with nature Farming: http://www.farmingmagazine.net/articles.htm

·         The Budget (a weekly publication of Amish communities): http://www.thebudgetnewspaper.com/.  (A brief history of the newspaper is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Budget.)