But that's not all Valentine harvests from the hard-working creatures in his charge. It's not hard to see why. There are indeed many parallels between the lives of bees and men at Spring Prairie. Like the bees, the Hutterites who live here are, as a group, largely self-sufficient. Just as some bees fetch the pollen and others carry it into the hive, the human colonists have a clear division of labor.
Men do jobs involving machinery, animals or crops.
Women tend home and garden, staff the kitchen, the bakery, the laundry and the preschool. For that reason, Spring Prairie Colony is more than an isolated community of location. All things common' Guided by this harmony of thought and deed, the Hutterites at Spring Prairie live together from cradle to grave, apart from the larger society. The community life and the Christian community of goods is the best way I can find. John says he truly believes God intended for people to live communally.