A Friends of the Amish Province

Creative provinces can form around friendships and the desire to help people. In this example, people who want to support the Amish lifestyle, form a Friends of the Amish Province, to become a buffer zone for their nearby Amish communities, and to assist them in a variety of ways, such as with transportation.

For example, because the Amish do not drive motorized vehicles, they occasionally rely on car drivers to take them to distant places. This enables the Amish to maintain their horse-centered transportation lifestyle for most of their activities.

Likewise, in order to use horses for plowing, the Amish sometimes hire farmers with motorized tractors to perform initial plowing of a field to break up the sod, so that horse-driven plows can then be used.

This is an important concept in creating communities: We are here to help each other to manifest a vision. This, of course, is the bedrock of teamwork we find throughout all life. People and animals with different skills, abilities, and resources help each other so that together they can accomplish their visions.