John Esh on Amish Life & Cheese (Full Interview)

[@TheShilohdad]

Gee, anybody who thinks the Amish are unsophisticated needs to listen to Mr. Esh. He is very impressive and obviously loves his business and his life. Thanks for posting the video. Next time I visit my niece in Nittany Valley, you can be sure there is one place I will visit.

[@carinthiamontana7069]

Thanks also to John Esh, very impressive smart well-spoken business man.

[@buckspa]

That is such a beautiful area, rolling green hills, very well maintained barns and homes.

[@TheLizardKing1967]

I am loving the new format Erik. Great work!! Awesome interview and very informative as well.

[@AmishAmerica]

Awesome, thank you! Hope to do more, stay tuned :)

[@TheLizardKing1967]

Sounds great!!! Love your work!!

[@GrumpyKitten375]

Thank you Eric and Mr. Esh....very informative and highly articulate businessman. This was an extremely interesting and impressive interview...I live far away from Amish communities but I hope to visit someday

[@AmishAmerica]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@scottstephenson9597]

I was looking for a place I can get quality cheese from thanks for this interview.

[@breadfan262]

I had a professor named Esh at Junuata College (Central PA)

[@birdiesgs]

I loved listening to the video...Thank you Erik..I was so glad for a chance to listen to John...I was just looking at the booklet that John's business had sent me in the mail...Actually, I was just trying to decide what I want..I love their cheese..There is nothing like it in any grocery store..You can't cut a piece and then stop there..After you taste it, you have to have another slice.. I have had many different kinds they sell, and the flavors are unreal..I am hoping to get there to visit in the spring, if I can talk my daughter into it..Thank you Eric and thanks John for all the information....Alberta

[@AmishAmerica]

Glad you loved the vid! This was a lot of fun to do. And the cheese is great isn't it! John said there are 19 types so I still have a lot to try

[@philsajtar7487]

You knocked this one "out of the park" ! Excellent video, Thank you !

[@AmishAmerica]

Thank you Phil, I learned a lot from John myself!

[@VivPhotography]

Great interview! I just ordered some cheese and fudge from his website, so I'm really excited to try it out :)

[@AmishAmerica]

Awesome, hope you enjoy it!

[@jordanrollo7045]

Just wanting to say, liking the new video's keep it up

[@AmishAmerica]

Thanks!

[@Lost_AtSea_]

Can’t wait to get my gift basket, thanks!

[@AmishAmerica]

Great!

[@cindygingras4729]

It is quite a process from getting the milk to making and ageing the cheese and getting it to market. Learned alot and have much respect for these hard working people . Thank you Erik ...will have to check out their web site

[@AmishAmerica]

Absolutely, on that note one thing in the vid you may have caught, John talks about a 3.5 year ageing process for the one cheddar. It too me a minute to get John's point - in other words that can make it a tricky planning process when you need to predict how much cheddar to make this year...for the year 2027!

[@cindygingras4729]

I caught that. It's such a time consuming process you need a crystal ball to make it all work. Think I see some amish cheddar in my future !@@AmishAmerica

[@cindynielson4231]

Great video interview with Mr. Esh. I have read different people think that their life is hard and it is to non Amish, but when you are raised in that lifestyle you don't know any different. I like how he was able to use the internet to help his business and while still staying with his Amish lifestyle. TFS 👍

[@karengunia5451]

Great video. I am going to order a Christmas badket!

[@AmishAmerica]

Great! I hope you enjoy it

[@daveblakeley91]

JOHN IS A VERY IMPRESSIVE BUSSNESS MAN. ERIK VREY EDUCATIONAL VIDEO .

[@luhoffma8836]

Dairy farming is So Hard. Much respect.

[@luckyduckie2000]

Oh boy now i'm really hungry. So glad they now have a web site. I want to order. After listening to this interview, no one should say that this man is not intelligent. He has great business acumen.

[@RedneckHillbilly-ho9md]

The Nittany Valley is just up over the 7 Mountains from the Big Valley. Basically the same as Big Valley just a higher elevation.

[@donholsinger4229]

Very informative, thank you Eric and John.

[@AmishAmerica]

Glad you enjoyed it Don.

[@kagnewmp12]

Love your content and the way you talk about the Amish. I deal with Amish everyday other than Sunday and I can say nothing negative about them. I would like to know your thoughts on Eli Yoder and his channel. He's a former Amish from a very old Amish order out of Ohio but left the Amish some 25 years ago and his channel only deals with just how bad it was in his old order and refers to it mostly as a Cult.

[@janeEyreAddict]

I don't know about his opinion but mine for what it's worth...his testimony is very sad and certainly his particular church hurt his family a great deal. However, I find him very bitter, condescending and seeks to break apart any Amish from their roots. He doesn't act like the forgiving Christian he claims to be.

[@AmishAmerica]

Thanks much for the kind words there. So as to your question, tbh I've really hardly watched any of Eli's vids, so I'm not going to pretend I know his content well. And so the following may or may not apply in his case. But I can say that it's not uncommon for people who come out of the Amish & had a bad experience to build a platform on "exposing the Amish", talking about the negative and more sensational things in their experience. The problem is it's often just one person talking about one community...and then portraying that, or letting that be understood as, the way ALL Amish do things. In other words, blowing up one family's or community's dysfunction onto a whole population. And usually there's not a lot of nuance such as: "this is the way MY Amish group did things, others are different". The other bit is that negative experiences sell. Now, that said, I repeat that I'm not sure what Eli does as far as that's concerned - maybe he is more nuanced and focused with his criticisms. And I can certainly understand if someone had a bad experience, and of course has the right to talk about that (hopefully responsibly). But I've seen what I describe above repeatedly with some other former Amish content creators.

[@jackiewalker5240]

​@@AmishAmericahe says very often that "In my Swartzentuber order" "this happened to my family"

[@kagnewmp12]

Oh I agree so much because he talks a lot about the bad in his old order growing up like how his Father was Shunned many times over the years and the day before he was going to help his Father escape what he called a Cult his Father committed Suicide after spending years as an Alcoholic. He talks about him going into deep depression and doing drugs and also being an Alcoholic after his Father killed himself. He mentions that he is now a preacher and that he believes in God and Jesus and I'd like to believe him but I also believe he knows You tube makes him money. @@AmishAmerica

[@birdiesgs]

@@janeEyreAddict I run across one of this video's online and I listened. But I did not care for what and how he was saying things..So I just clicked it off. I will just say it is not my cup of tea..

[@Reziac]

Their website is great. I wish I could be there to taste the cheeses!

[@AmishAmerica]

They do have a really good site. I actually wasn't aware of the cheese descriptors until John pointed it out in this conversation. Neat info to have when learning about the different varieties

[@Reziac]

@@AmishAmerica Good photography too.

[@mienafriggstad3360]

👏 great interview; hi from Saskatchwan 🙋‍♀️

[@AmishAmerica]

Hey, thanks!

[@Jacelyn5440]

Nice video! Thanks for sharing. I am always interested in finding out more about the Amish and how they live.

[@AmishAmerica]

Absolutely!

[@george46light]

Really cool conversation!

[@sharonholmes2470]

Very impressive! 👍 I have learned a lot! Thank You!

[@AmishAmerica]

You are welcome!

[@raethibodeau9604]

Well I can cross off some family members from my Christmas list. Great interview. I can't wait to try their cheese. One question from the interview. It was mentioned that he and his wife decided to take over half the farm. Is that common in the Amish community for the wife to have a say in the big decisions?

[@AmishAmerica]

Great question, I would definitely say yes for that kind of decision. For a lot of (most?) Amish at least, it's not as male-dominant in the decision-making, at least not compared to how it's often portrayed. And especially with something as consequential as say a move to a new community or a choice about occupation like farming, which is much more a lifestyle or vocation than a "job"

[@Canyoncreekfarms]

Enjoy all your videos, and glad your back. I really enjoyed this format!

[@AmishAmerica]

Glad to hear it, happy to be back. I enjoyed this too

[@cherylbertolini3140]

Great Video really enjoyed it:)

[@Melissa0774]

I wonder if in the next 30 years or so, the Amish are going to start pushing entrepreneurship as a form of self reliance, as an actual tenet of their religion or a rule that they're expected to follow. I mean, so many of them own their own businesses anyway, because they want to be self reliant, but I don't think any of their churches anywhere has an actual rule that they have to do that, right? I wonder if that will change at some point. And I bet they're probably going to start preparing kids in school to be business owners a lot more. I saw a video recently, about an Amish school, where they had the eighth grade class do a project where they had to write letters to lots of different businesses to ask them what makes them successful. I wonder if they're going to have a lot more of that sort of thing or if they're going to go in the opposite direction and farm less and less and get jobs for outsider companies more and more often. I wonder if they'll get to the point where they're pretty much indistinguishable from Mennonites because they'll start driving cars and using electricity and working for others.

[@sdrc92126]

Governments around the world are eliminating cash (look up cbdc) in order to track and control every exchange (and tax). This will make it mandatory that every person have a cell phone and some people are experimenting with biometric tags (like for lost pets) connected over the internet. I wonder ho the Amish will fare in this environment. If you haven't heard of it, look up the great reset. It is very Orwellian.

[@johnwbrown0829]

Where did the name come from - goot essa?

[@AmishAmerica]

It means "good eating" or "good food" in Pennsylvania Dutch

[@johnsquires9645]

This sounds like your last posted video

[@AmishAmerica]

Yes the last video was a 3.5 minute excerpt of this one

[@joshnewcomb3389]

I really enjoyed this