Dining in the Slow Lane: An Amish Country Meander

Photo by Jane Simon Ammeson
Photo by Jane Simon Ammeson
Country Lane Bakery just north of Goshen. An Amish bakery known for pies and breads, which are baked in propane-fueled ovens because of this self-sustaining religious group’s belief that reliance on public power ties them too closely to the outside world.
Quilt Garden at Das Essenhaus: Amish Country is known for its beautiful quilt gardens, blankets of blooms planted to replicate classic and new quilt squares. Das Essenhaus is a delightful restaurant and bakery complex with carriage rides, a hotel and boutique shops. Photo provided by Amish Country/Elkhart County CVB.
Photo by Jane Simon Ammeson
The oldest continuously operating grist mill in the state, the Bonneyville Mill, between Bristol and Middlebury, continues to turn out flours and meals with the heavy turns of the mill wheel—just as it did over 150 years ago.
Photo by Jane Simon Ammeson
One of the many joys of driving the back roads in Northwestern Indiana’s Amish Country is coming across bake sales like this one, raising money for local Amish schools.
Interior Wakarusa Dime Store, which opened in 1907 as a general store, is one of many historic structures in this charming small town in Northwest Indiana’s Amish Country. Photos courtesy of Amish Country/Elkhart County CVB.