the amish

The Amish are considered excellent farmers, growing and storing the majority of their food and purchasing in stores only staples such as flour and sugar. The Old Order Amish refuse to use most modern farm machinery, preferring the sweat of their brow over the ease of modern conveniences.

With his followers Jakob Ammann established a new order that called amish.

In the early 21st century there were about 250,000 Amish living in more than 200 Old Order Amish settlements in the United States and Canada

in the amish comunity everyday life and custom are governed by an unwritten code of behaviour called the Ordnung.

The Amish are best known for their plain clothing, most of it self-made, and nonconformist lifestyle.

The Old Order Amish shun personal home-based telephones but will occasionally use a communal one. They also eschew automobiles. They ride bicycles and drive horse-drawn buggies instead.

The use of electricity, however, is strongly avoided, as it is a prime connection to the world that could lead to temptations and worldly amenities detrimental to the community and family life.

The Amish typically accept the photographing of their way of life, but they forbid photos of themselves, believing such things are graven images in violation of the Second Commandment. For this same reason the dolls young Amish girls play with are traditionally faceless.

Amish children typically attend one-room schools run by the community, and they attend school only through the eighth grade.

thet live that way becouse they balive in humbel life and worke of God.