We took a guided tour of the Amish countryside, stopping to visit two Amish farms. The first one we visited had large tobacco barns with drying tobacco. 
They grow regular tobacco as well as a low nicotine variety in addition to corn, soybeans and all sorts of fresh vegetables. 
There are road side farmer’s markets on every road. At this first stop the Amish family had converted a daylight basement into a store, selling beautiful quilts and other handmade items. They also sold homemade cookies, whoopee pies (very popular here), shoofly pie (also popular) and various homemade apple butter and jellies. We picked up a far of elderberry jelly and sampled homemade root-beer, which Ellen loved and Marv didn’t care for.
The second farm we visited had a carriage hitched and ready to travel. It is unusual to see two horses hitched to a carriage. They normally only use one. Their horses are beautiful animals that are trained to be high stepping trotters.
They are magnificent to watch. They also had miniture horses.
These folks had a small store in one end of their barn that also sold some hand-quilted items as well as many wood-crafted items and snacks.
We were surprised to find that even though the Amish cannot have electricity or a phone in their house, they can generate their own power for their work and have a work phone in a small building by itself away from the house. This farm had a large generator to run tools in the shop.
After a long day of touring we stopped at the Hershey Inn and Restaurant for dinner. They had a very good buffet with local favorites.
They grow regular tobacco as well as a low nicotine variety in addition to corn, soybeans and all sorts of fresh vegetables. There are road side farmer’s markets on every road. At this first stop the Amish family had converted a daylight basement into a store, selling beautiful quilts and other handmade items. They also sold homemade cookies, whoopee pies (very popular here), shoofly pie (also popular) and various homemade apple butter and jellies. We picked up a far of elderberry jelly and sampled homemade root-beer, which Ellen loved and Marv didn’t care for.The second farm we visited had a carriage hitched and ready to travel. It is unusual to see two horses hitched to a carriage. They normally only use one. Their horses are beautiful animals that are trained to be high stepping trotters.
They are magnificent to watch. They also had miniture horses. These folks had a small store in one end of their barn that also sold some hand-quilted items as well as many wood-crafted items and snacks.We were surprised to find that even though the Amish cannot have electricity or a phone in their house, they can generate their own power for their work and have a work phone in a small building by itself away from the house. This farm had a large generator to run tools in the shop.
After a long day of touring we stopped at the Hershey Inn and Restaurant for dinner. They had a very good buffet with local favorites.
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