This is the second installment of an ongoing series with a focus on small independent farms and creative use of farmland. We hope it serves as a reminder that the food grown and raised in Lancaster County is both diverse and extraordinary and that the people tending the land have stories worth telling. Join us in saluting our neighbors.
On a recent 90-degree day, Drew Spitzer hands me a sun-kissed strawberry that is almost hot to the touch. It might be the best thing Iâve eaten in a million years. His 8-by-40-feet plot of strawberries is popping with rubied fruit, one of several seasonal crops that heâs growing expressly for Horse Inn. Joining the berries on this quarter-acre parcel in Strasburg are bok choy, head cabbage, cardoons, celtuce, multiple lettuces, snow peas, hakurei turnips and radishes, to name a few.
Dozens of patrons gathered at Huberâs West End Market on Sunday afternoon to say goodbye to the city storeâs longtime owners.
The market, located at 501 West Lemon Street, was purchased last month by Adam and Tracey Davis after more than 60 years of ownership by the Huber family.
Friends Sam Hoover, 13, and brothers Collin, 14, and Benjamin Gibbel, 10, all of Lancaster, were enjoying the free food and music Sunday to mark the Huber familyâs departure.
âIâm not really sure what itâs going to be like (under new ownership),â said Hoover who usually walks to the store multiple times a week to grab snacks and drinks. âIn a way itâs disappointing, but Iâm also excited.â