My respect for the Amish is huge. I grew up not far from a few rather large settlements.

The breadth of knowledge they have, as a group at least, is impressive. You could buy handmade furniture from them. And cheese. You're doing yourself a disservice if you've never tried an Amish cheese. And, they built my mother's house. A truck drove them in and picked them up each day. Just watching their work and attention to detail was something else.

If nothing else, they're a very self sustaining population.