Hunsberger Farm, Davidsville PA

I went to visit my family in Johnstown, PA and decided to stay on a farm! It turned out to be one of my top 5 "best travel experiences" ever!

 

The Hunsberger farm, red barns and all!

The family house, where a few rooms are available for Bed and Breakfast

Inside my room

Cemetery up on the hill

Joseph Johns I, founder of Johnstown

The tractor of Joseph Johns VI

Beef cows having breakfast in the barn

Cows with Max, the farm dog

Max in front of the chicken coop

Fresh eggs

One fine rooster!

Water for the chickens

Max terrorizing a chicken 😠

These are fainting goats. They're supposed to fall over when they're scared but they never do.

There were two sheep, two lambs and two goats.

And two pigs!

One of the granddaughters was training her pig for a competition.

Training the pig

The barn burned down in 2020. To rebuild it, the Amish came for a traditional Amish barn raising.

They were baling hay while we were there.

 

Our host, Bill, drove us around Amish country in Somerset County on two different days. The second time his wife, Jeanette, came along too. That afternoon we spent a couple of hours in the home of an Amish man that Bill knew. He very kindly answered all of our questions about the Amish community. Out of respect I didn't take photographs there.

 

Moo Echo Dairy is a conservative Mennonite grocery store and lunch place where we stopped for lunch on both days. The girls working behind the counter were not yet married. Once married they do not work outside the home.

Bill and Jeanette, our hosts

 

This is a little Amish dairy store. No one is there. You take what you want, put money in a little box and leave a note.

 

The Amish do not have phones in their homes. But some do have them in small sheds far enough away from the house so as not to hear the phone ringing from inside the home.

Goodbye to the farm