Golf in Kalona

Kalona is a Washington County community known for having Iowa's largest Amish population. The Old Order Amish community's traditional agricultural practices — horse-drawn equipment, plain dress, and limited technology — create a distinctive landscape alongside the contemporary Washington County farming community. Golf serves the non-Amish residents of the Kalona area. The surrounding landscape of corn and soybean fields, the grain elevators that mark the horizon, and the seasonal rhythms of planting and harvest create the Iowa agricultural context that gives the local golf community its distinctive Midwest character. Iowa's position at the heart of the American agricultural economy — one of the world's most productive farming regions — creates communities shaped by land values, commodity markets, and the natural seasons, and local golf serves as a year-round social institution in this distinctively Midwestern setting.