Four more Lancaster County family farms totaling 303 acres have been preserved, bringing the county commissioners’ 2023 preservation efforts to 1,324 total acres across 15 farms.
“What a fun project!” Most readers who wrote in during the “Who should be on a Mount Rushmore for Lancaster County?” experiment expressed some variation of that statement. Many then
John Piotti, president of the American Farmland Trust, said farmland remains in jeopardy. Karen Martynick was honored for 17 years as president of Lancaster Farmland Trust.