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.