The remarkable growth is almost entirely due to the Amish birth rate -- many Amish families have five or more children. Kraybill said the Amish retain about 85 percent of the young adults who have to ...

The search by the booming North American population of Amish for affordable, fertile farmland has produced settlements in 28 states and Ontario — and has even led parties to scout recently for ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. – and has even led parties to scout recently for suitable properties in Alaska and Mexico. A new study estimates the number of Amish has increased nearly 10 percent in the past two ...

The search by the booming North American population of Amish for affordable, fertile farmland has produced settlements in 28 states and Ontario - and has even led parties to scout recently for ...

Members of the Lancaster Old Order Amish settlement have long been prolific land buyers, according to a trend first identified in 1995 by Elizabethtown College associate professor of sociology Dr.

Henry Beiler was one of the first Amish farmers in Lancaster County to preserve his land forever. In separate transactions in the 1980s, he preserved half of his Upper Leacock Township livestock, ...

A new road sign cautions drivers to watch for Amish horse-drawn carriages in the valley beneath Colorado's Sangre de Cristo mountains. Highway pull-offs and dedicated horse-and-buggy paths are in the ...