THE AMISH: FLOURISHING LAND OWNERS

Living on Earth
Much of the country's farmland is disappearing to development, and in Lancaster County in eastern Pennsylvania lies some of the country's best growing and dairy farming land. While conservationists have been struggling to establish legal and bureaucratic ways of preserving the best of what farmland is left, old order Amish farmers in Lancaster County seem to have found an answer in their faith. For ten years a sociologist from Elizabethtown College, Conrad Kanagy, has been tracking farm sales in the county. We recently spoke about his findings.
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