Sightseeing Lancaster Farming Territory
With Everett
Newswanger,
Managing.
Editor
Lancaster
County
Houses built in front of farm buildings are an increasingly prevalent scene in the rich
fertile farm land of Lancaster Farming territory. The proper management of the ratio of
land preserved for agriculture and land reserved for development is a concern of many
Pennsylvania farm organizations, the Lancaster County Ag Preserve Board, that State
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Sierra Club.
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Fertile soil with good land management practices create the Susquehanna River from Donerville Road in Lancaster
beautiful farm scenes. This photo was taken looking toward County.
Elwood Funk, retired farmer uncovers some sprouted
limabeans that couldn’t get their heads up through the dry
soil in his garden early Wednesday morning. Funk also finds
some early strawberries on plants that were in full bloom.
Funk thought his strawberries may have had a little frost
damage. Certainly the garden needed to be soaked with a
good rain.
The catching crew from Pennfield was out working early Wednesday morning at the
farm of Jerry and Jim Burkholder, RD3 Lititz. While catching chickens is a dirty job, this
photo taken from the rural road past the farm shows the skid loader doing at least some
of the work necessary to fill the waiting tractor trailer trucks.