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Hutterite colonies hover at around 100 to 130 members. When they overflow past this number, the colony fissions. This allows them to maintain an intensity of interconnected life unknown to most of our society.
In nearly every family situation there is daily interaction between at least three generations. They visit in each other’s homes; they worship together; and they work side by side in the fields, in shop work, cooking and dishwashing, and in the canning of hundreds of large jars of fruits and vegetables. These tasks require nearly every adult member to be engaged intensely in colony life. One gets a sense of being part of one large extended family of 40 to 50 adults every day, so close is the cooperation and accomplishment of the work at hand.