Masonic Hamlet Farm Marketplace - Wow!

Lancaster County is good known for the PA Dutch/Amish connection, but inward the past times decade or so, we're garnering attending for lots of other things. Lititz is over the colina inward 1 direction, as well as they accept been named the Coolest Small Town inward the US, accept the best Brew Pub inward the country, as well as Lititz Rock has snuff it a mecca for musicians preparing for globe tours. Lancaster metropolis has been called the novel Brooklyn as well as was late honored for having the best java roaster inward America. We've got a lot of slap-up things going on here.

Nice large jars of elderberry jelly. EH readers know to maintain some elderberry some during influenza season!

There are ever surprises. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few weeks ago, my sister's lather society took an social club of lather out to the Masonic Village Farm Market inward Elizabethtown (over the colina inward some other directon). We'd never been there, as well as entering the retirement community was almost similar a completely split upwards town. Fields as well as orchards, meadows as well as farms, all stunning as well as good kept. We were awed!

Then nosotros got to the market. Beautiful, local, as well as almost everything grown on the farm. Additionally, at that topographic point was milk, H2O ice cream, cheeses, meat, dip mixes, baked goods, olive oil, jellies, as well as sauces. The marketplace is opened upwards twelvemonth round, but the cafe isn't opened upwards quite nonetheless - but volition survive inward some other calendar week or so.

Here are a few pics. I snagged the lather motion painting off their facebook page.

Small dairy farm - drinking glass bottles.

Beautiful cheeses.

I won't snuff it along as well as on as well as on close the baked goods. But I'd similar to.

Look at this beautiful display of Lancaster Soapworks, Etc. soaps!

I'm looking frontward to our side past times side trip. They accept hand-dipped H2O ice cream inward the cafe, as well as I tin simply imagine sitting to savor it, as well as looking out over the valley of farmland spreading our below.
Check it out if you're local OR if you lot watch our beautiful surface area on vacation. This is actually an out of the way, non-touristy gem.