Pat Landis stood at the edge of her driveway, admiring the amber fields that stretch for acres outside her West Hempfield Township neighborhood, with its manicured lawns and picket fences.
In an excellent column, “Important moment for Lancaster’s waterways,” which was published in the June 10 LNP | LancasterOnline, Jeff Swinehart, president and CEO of Lancaster Farmland Trust, discussed how
THE ISSUE: “In Lancaster County, desirable farmland regularly sells for about $30,000 an acre, tens of thousands of dollars more than the statewide and national averages, local experts like Ann
Everyone wants it. It provides countless benefits to public health, local economies and quality of life. With it, wildlife thrives, communities flourish and anglers smile.
A dirt path, covered in snow from a mid-March storm, cut through Tyler Neff’s 20 acres in Conoy Township, leading the way from his farmhouse, past a barn and, eventually,