Amish Greenhouse Road Trip

My story describing the Amish greenhouses in southern Minnesota has been consistently the most visited post I have written. Why this has been the case for several years intrigued me. It turned out the post somehow ended up as the top Google response to a query about the topic. I attribute the popularity to the lack of advertisement for a Spring travel opportunity Minnesotans heard about, but for which information was difficult to locate. I happened to write something that came up in response to a query.

We have made a road trip to Amish greenhouses near St. Charles, MN, an annual event. Several different Amish families have constructed greenhouses on their farms as a revenue source and the forms are located close enough together that is easy to pay a visit to multiple greenhouses.

The greenhouses are beautiful and plants were available at very reasonable prices. It was a little early for vegetables so we stuck mostly to purchasing flowers.

This area of Minnesota is a great study in contrast. You have the giant farms making use of massive farm equipment next to these smaller Amish family farms maintained by horses and equipment suited to this level of horsepower. The greenhouses also are unique in that they are heated by wood stoves inside of boilers to maintain the heat. Elsewhere, horses are everywhere.

This final picture says more than might think. This is a receipt for one of our purchases. This was completed by a teenaged Amish girl who seem to always take care of the payments. These girls seem so shy and tend not to look at you. Everything is done by hand. They generate this old fashioned, carbon-paper receipt and add up your bill without use of a calculator. They prefer taking cash, but are very careful recording the tax they must pay. Render onto Caesar ….

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