The Hermitage


		Here is the story of our Harmonist spirituality, links to our blog and other web sites (Flax for Sale and The Third Testament), plus photos, how to get here and contact information

	Our blog: attheHermitage.blogspot.com Visit our other web sites:l flaxforsale.com Christian and Johannes have been growing and processing flax to linen since the early 1980s. The website presents historical flax information, flax production and flax items for sale. third-testament.org The Third Testament tells our spirituality in story form, by Johannes, and in poetry, by Christian.


	As Harmonists, we live in life’s essential unity and wholeness. Not a religion or a philosophy, it is a spiritual path and a way of life.

Postal mail: The Hermitage, 75 Grove Rd., Pitman, PA 17964 U.S.

Phone: 570-425-2548

Email: brojoh@yahoo.com

Check our videos at www.youtube.com and type in “atthehermitage” in the search line. Our videos will be listed and you can also subscribe (it’s free) to receive an email every time a new video is released.

Our new book, The Big Book of Flax, is now available and published by Schiffer Publishing of Atglen, Pennsylvania. It is available at Amazon.com. Signed copies may also be purchased directly from us for $49.99 (list price is $59.99), shipping included. Contact us at BroJoh@yahoo.com for more information.

We have two DVD series available for purchase:

1. Marvelous Inventions - 30,000 Years of Flax Spinning, is an eleven part, two DVD set showing the complete history of flax spinning, including using the hand on the thigh, the hand and drop spindles, the Sleeping Beauty wheel, spinning tow on a Canadian wool wheel, the single flyer wheel and the double flyer wheel. The price is $14.99 including shipping.

2. Kum Essa - A Pennsylvania Dutch Bake Day is a 38-part, seven DVD set covering an entire Pennsylvania Dutch bake day using the 200-year-old bake oven here at the Hermitage. The series shows other remaining and historic brick bake ovens in our valley, how to make a potato-based sourdough starter, the tools and equipment needed to use a bake oven, historic apple peelers and local varieties of apples, using locally grown wheat flour, starting and maintaining the fire, judging the oven temperature without a thermometer, how to make authentic Dutch specialties such as shoo fly pie, whoopie pies, ginger bread, Dutch corn bread, Black Joe cake, crumb cake and more. The price is $29.99 including shipping.

Contact the Hermitage at BroJoh@yahoo.com for information on either set.


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