The Amish community of Pinecraft in Sarasota, Florida.
Posted on 02/13/2022 8:42:09 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I can recommend Yoders.......great food!!
If you're ever in town and want a great home-cooked meal, be sure to visit Der Dutchman on Bahia Vista Street. You won't leave hungry.
Yoder’s is usually a quality place to stop regardless of what they are selling in Amish country.
My folks lived in Chester County, PA on the eastern edge of the Amish country. We took many trips to the Amish country with grandma and grandpa when our kids were little. After Dad passed, Mom enjoyed long drives through the backroads of Lancaster County. We had quite a few meals at the Shady Maple Smorgasbord in East Earl, PA. I remember the first time we stopped there I was highly skeptical of the "food factory" feeling of the place, but it was super - really good food and a fun place. Good memories!
They’ve been coming down for a long time, and in fact some of them have furniture businesses (they build furniture) based in Florida. I don’t think there are any large permanent communities at this point, though.
Watch for buggies...
I’ve bought several Amish made handicrafts through the years... ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDNG QUALITY.
Much better than the trash being peddled at WalMart.
By the time your buggy gets there, isn’t it time to turn around and go home?
Do they get there by horse-and-buggy?
“I’ve bought several Amish made handicrafts through the years... ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDNG QUALITY.”
Yes, same here. The Iowa Amana Colonies sell high quality woolen and furniture goods.
We’ve got fine Amish furniture in our son’s bedroom (he grew up and moved out). It is sturdy, all wood, excellent hardware, and shows zero signs of wear after 15 years. Great value for the money!
FAR better than anything out of China, for sure.
I read somewhere that with their large families, and present birthrates projected into the future, Amish population could become 50% of the US population in 100 years.
IMHO, why not? Our present materialist, financialized, secular, post-modern society may simply extinguish itself. God will always bless His faithful.
I knew there was an Amish community in Sarasota but I too, didn’t know they were snowbirds.
Not all are snowbirds.....my daughter’s college roommate was Amish from Sarasota and she was a permanent resident.
They are truly lovely people
There are some Florida Mennonites that have a business of shuttling the Amish from the north to Florida. (Many Mennonites on U-Tube)
The Amish are a cult. They are NOT Christian.
I know it well.
What? No horse and buggy from PA?
My in laws alive there. Lots of Mennonites and great pies at those places.
I think they were sick of putting snow tires on the bicycles and winter wheels on the buggies up north. Easier life in Florida.
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