Does a Modern, Sustainable Food System Depend on Off-the-Grid Farmers?

80 percent of the suppliers to companies like Lancaster Farm Fresh are Amish and Mennonite

An Amish farmer plows his field behind six draft horses in New Wilmington, southwestern Pennsylvania. Photo: Jeff Swensen via Getty Images

Harold Weaver is a Mennonite farmer who lives with his wife and six children in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. The children help feed the goats and cows, as well as the horses that pull the buggies the…