By Karen Longwell of The Herald staff:
A morning visit to the Leask Hutterite Colony is an educational experience and a look into a unique culture.

The colony is located about 65 kilometres southwest of Prince Albert.

With Mary-Ann Kirkby, Prince Albert author of the book “I am Hutterite“, as a guide, I was able to photograph and meet people on the colony.

There are about 75 people living in the colony.

The community is designed with the kitchen building in the centre. Residents take their meals in the dining hall and all the women work together to prepare the meals.

Resident homes are built in a square shape around the kitchen and outside of the homes is the farm. There is grain farming and dairy cattle.

The colony also has a school and church at the core. Students learn from both a Hutterite teacher and a non-Hutterite teacher until high school level.

High school students can study through courses on the Internet.

Young people learn English in school but the first language, a German dialect thought to have originated from the Corinthian province in Austria, is spoken within the colony.

Clothing styles are traditional and modest. Long dresses and headscarves for women; pants, shirts, suspenders and hats for men.

There are more than 40,000 Hutterites living on about 400 colonies throughout Canada’s Prairie provinces and in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Washington and Montana in the United States.

klongwell@paherald.sk.ca

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