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| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Sep 28 2011 : 10:22:57 AM
Hey Farmgirls, I've been hitting the listings again. I've seen a few Amish farmsteads listed before but I thought I'd share this one for ogling, as it's a good example of the modern amish standard of off the grid living. Enjoy!
http://www.landsofamerica.com/america/index.cfm?Detail=&INV_ID=1021868
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
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"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
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| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Nov 29 2011 : 6:27:45 PM
It's a common misconception that Amish are all sequestered into communes or something. They really do just go about their lives in normal neighborhoods, just at a slower pace. They are determined not to let the world run away with them in it's frantic way as it does the english.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
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"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| jill skane |
Posted - Nov 29 2011 : 1:15:54 PM
My husband and I purchased a farm in Stacyville Maine in 2004 from an amish couple this July we sold our home in Mass and now live here in Maine. Since July there have been 6 amish families that have move here in sherman and stacyville from Ohio. The farm next door to us is one of the amish that moved in. We have horse and wagons up and down the street all day. My daughterinlaw was up at thanksgiving and this is the picture she took..jpg) Jill Lillian |
| GaiasRose |
Posted - Nov 29 2011 : 12:25:02 PM
Uhm that is a ridiculously low price! When I had the farm up North it was only 12 acres and a house and garage and we paid 150K!! We put up a couple of buildings and the price is currently 142K market value. That's a luscious price if you ask me!!
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| sammyann |
Posted - Nov 29 2011 : 11:22:30 AM
What wonderful pictures. They are very calming and peaceful to me. I wish I had a place like that. But I will make do with what I have. I just need to find a way to bring that quite peace into my own home. :) (ok, once my kids leave I can work on that). Thanks for Sharing.... |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Nov 27 2011 : 1:07:31 PM
Sadly, my hubby is to "techy" (and to be fair, so am I) for us to live without power. I have to have wiring in the walls although I would be totally on board for solar power.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| YakLady |
Posted - Nov 23 2011 : 10:03:23 PM
That one's really nice, too!
~Natalie~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana. http://mtnme.blogspot.com
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| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Nov 23 2011 : 9:33:23 PM
Alright, here's a new one! Fresh listing, Princeton Missouri. 7 bedrooms, 25 acres with blacktop frontage. 30x30 barn with hay loft and 2 lean to's and 4 grain bins. 20 acres in pasture, 3 acres in Timber and a pond. 125k. Happy looking!
http://www.landsofamerica.com/america/?detail=&inv_id=1035246
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Oct 25 2011 : 11:38:04 AM
That is precisely why I am looking in MO Mary. I was always an oregonian but we can't afford the place we've always wanted in the Pacific NW right now. In Missouri, I have my choice of several properties, (I've looked at many amish and mennonite houses too)the winters aren't anything worse than what I am used to in parts of oregon and after surviving Phoenix heat at it's apex for 4 straight months year after year, a little humidity and high temps for a couple weeks doesn't seem like a bad trade off!
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| longbeachfox |
Posted - Oct 25 2011 : 08:29:18 AM
What a wonderful place! Here on the WA coast you could never touch that many acres and a house plus all the outbuildings for such a price! Here you might get a 2 bedroom on an acre for 150,000! What a dream that would be! I printed it off to show my husband later. He will be amazed. Hugs, Mary
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| longbeachfox |
Posted - Oct 25 2011 : 08:22:41 AM
What a wonderful place! Here on the WA coast you could never touch that many acres and a house plus all the outbuildings for such a price! Here you might get a 2 bedroom on an acre for 150,000! What a dream that would be! I printed it off to show my husband later. He will be amazed. Hugs, Mary
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| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Oct 24 2011 : 6:45:19 PM
Plow it?? You go by sleigh!! :D
But really, the state/county/city maintains the roads. Amish communities aren't set up like communes. An order chooses an area to settle and everyone just buys available land in that general area. Amish farms are interspersed with modern farms. A good thing too! the next Amish household could be 10 miles away!
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| YakLady |
Posted - Oct 24 2011 : 5:03:18 PM
Gorgeous! And priced so reasonably... How does one plow snow in the winter sans vehicles... cattle/horse plows?
~Natalie~ Just a farmgirl in Western Montana. http://mtnme.blogspot.com
Starting a family and raising Tibetan Yaks, Nigerian Dwarf Goats, Laying hens, Muscovy ducks, and a few dogs. |
| hoosiercountry |
Posted - Oct 05 2011 : 8:04:51 PM
Beautiful. But call me odd, My wish would be to convert the barn into a home. I really love big old barns. |
| paradiseplantation |
Posted - Oct 04 2011 : 08:09:36 AM
How beautiful!
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| StrawHouseRanch |
Posted - Oct 01 2011 : 08:10:53 AM
Megan, That's funny that you would say it looks like Kentucky in that photo, because my father's ancestors who settled in North Missouri moved there from Kentucky! So, they must have felt comfortable making a new home in the same type of terrain that they came from.
Paula
Farmgirl Sister #3090
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, and Today is a Gift.
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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Oct 01 2011 : 07:27:17 AM
I think it's so cool to see a room with NO clocks, no phones, no computers...it's refreshing. That's a really cool place! I thought it was here in KY for a minute-looks similar to our terrain.
Farmgirl #2879 :)
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| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Oct 01 2011 : 05:00:50 AM
Love. This. A Lot. Thanks for posting! It's a nice look inside a REAL Amish house. :)
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| ksharp |
Posted - Sep 30 2011 : 5:00:07 PM
Sighing longingly at the pictures! So, beautiful. When my now fourteen year old son was little he used to tell us "I'm gonna marry an Amish girl. Because I hate make-up and she could bake bread."
We will be taking a trip to Pa.Amish country next week for the Springs Festival. If I lose him there at least I'll know what happened. LOL.
Have a wonderful evening ladies. Thanks for such great pictures to dream of.
Kathee
"The crazy,dancing,goat lady." - #3462 |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Sep 30 2011 : 2:54:58 PM
Yeah, but they have their own problems. The view of God and religion is very narrow and they are forbidden from continued education and this is why many young people who choose to leave, do so. They are dependent on englishers for expertise with things like law, real estate and medical care because they can't attend school past 9th grade. The fear is that higher education would lead to "hochmute"- or pride.
Different families and ordnungs have different shunning practices. Sometimes they only shun people who make a commitment to the membership and then change their minds later, and sometimes they shun their youth who never made the commitment but chose an ordinary life.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| upnorthgirl |
Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 5:22:44 PM
I love it, thanks for posting! I alway's thought I would like to live in that type of environment, so simple.... Not to be political, but there are times I wonder if we all lived like the Amish, would we have the problems in our communities and nation, that we have today??? Probably not... but at least I can try or at least lead by example.... |
| Hidy |
Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 5:12:58 PM
My dream. I love everything Amish...mostly the cooking! |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 5:01:36 PM
Yeah, ordnungs have the right to set their own rules. The basic idea is that amish refuse to let their lives be dictated by conveniences or modern efficiency, and don't employ any automation that would take away from the environment of community shared labor. The houses and barns are built by the community members. If a house burns down, no one is invited to the rebuilding, they just show up. As far as I know even non Amish neighbors would be welcome at that sort of function.
I've seen many Amish properties come up for sale across Missouri while I've been looking. Some of them are as is, and some actually have electricity put in. Amish builders are well acquainted with electrical wiring oddly enough. Construction is probably their second industry only to farming. Amish young men frequently work in construction during off season for "english" contractors.
There is also a construction company out of Columbia, MO that is owned, operated and staffed by ex amish youth who leave the plain folk for usually religious reasons.
Here is another Amish house (enjoy all the woodwork and the canning in the basement!)
http://www.landsofamerica.com/america/?detail=&inv_id=933770
This one is lovely if you want something small.
http://www.landsofamerica.com/america/?detail=&inv_id=876940
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.” ~Will Rogers |
| StrawHouseRanch |
Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 07:05:48 AM
That's not too far from our neck of the woods, and very close to where my father grew up. It is beautiful country in that part of northern Missouri.
The first thing that crossed my mind looking at the photos was, "those fences could use a little work." But compared to the prices of land and property in that area, THAT is a bargain, even if you decided to spend some money and bring in some utilities....especially indoor plumbing.
Paula
Farmgirl Sister #3090
Yesterday is History, Tomorrow is a Mystery, and Today is a Gift.
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| MagnoliaWhisper |
Posted - Sep 29 2011 : 02:51:43 AM
I wish, I wish too!
Also it depends on the ordinance. (sp) I know here where I live, the amish fellow that works with my husband says they can not have electricity in the house, but can on other parts of the farm, for instance he has electric in his barn and that's ok.......he goes and listens to the radio in his barn. hehe. ;o)
http://www.heathersprairie.blogspot.com |
| ksharp |
Posted - Sep 28 2011 : 7:42:22 PM
I agree Wow! That's a lot of house and land for the price. Loved the kitchen stove.
Kathee
"The crazy,dancing,goat lady." - #3462 |
