American Colony: Meet the Hutterites

NGC introduces the King Colony and their way of life. Today, unlike their ancestors, they have sophisticated farming equipment, and are constantly evolving and struggling to find balance yet preserve their treasured traditions.

The elders from Canada pay a visit to the colony, and impose the worst punishment a Hutterite can ever receive -- a shunning.

Relationships are on the top of everyone's minds at the colony when Claudia, Clinton, Lisa and the other young people decide to go to a wedding in Canada.

Claudia is stirring things up on the colony when she decides that there is more to life than just cooking and cleaning and goes against tradition risking punishment to work with the men.

Carver's anger starts to boil when he goes hunting and can't get a deer, gets into a fight with a boy at school, and ultimately is suspended from school--will Carver be able to control his temper or will he completely go over the edge?

Glimpse a rite of passage for the Hutterite women as 17-year-old Tammy prepares for her very first cook and bake week.

Claudia and the girls sneak off to the slaughterhouse for a secret sewing session and craft dresses with bright colors and leopard prints.

Toby has to work around the clock caring for the new-born calves and he needs some help, but Clinton is not ready to take any responsibility even with the colony's financial situation at stake, while Claudia is crushed after Bertha chooses to spend time w [sic].

The outside world is creeping into the lives of the colony members as Wesley seeks to dispel long-held Hutterite stereotypes and Claudia contemplates applying to college and leaving the colony for good.

When the calving barn goes up in flames, Wesley and his cousins jeopardize their upcoming requests to get baptized and when Claudia hears from the college she applied to, her world starts to change.