Inside An Amish Farmers Modern Business



Inside The Amish Farm Feeding Modern America

Hey Reader,

We spent an entire day working alongside an Amish farmer in Pennsylvania, and what we found was not what we expected.

Before sunrise, we were helping pack online orders filled with beef, eggs, milk, cheese and other food from small farms throughout the area.

But that left us with a question: How does an Amish farm survive in a modern world?

Over the next 16 hours, we moved cattle, traveled by horse and buggy, made cheese, collected eggs from more than 1,000 chickens, milked cows and followed the food Raymond sells all the way back to where it begins.

And somewhere along the way, this story became about much more than farming.

Raymond is trying to build a business that can support his family and other small farms around him, while being very intentional about not allowing that business to take away the life he is trying to preserve.

One thing he told us has stuck with us ever since: “It’s not the high cost of living. It’s the cost of high living.”

This became one of our favorite conversations we’ve had while filming Unique America, and we’re excited for you to experience it with us.

We hope you enjoy it.

Cole + Emily

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We’re Cole and Emily Crews, the husband/wife duo behind Unique America, where we travel the country in search of its most unique experiences. Through cinematic storytelling, we turn each place into a story worth remembering.

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