The Gettysburg Pennsylvania Blog

The town of Littlestown is just a little drive from Gettysburg. The 81st National FFA Convention was held in Indianapolis, Indiana from October 21-25 and five of Littletown FFAs members came back award winners.
Junior Corbin Wood won a gold medal in Dairy Showmanship. Silver medal winners include Clifton Bittle, Sarah Hurlock, Cassie Klinedinst, and Jodi [...]

PA Farm News says Adams County is one of three counties that have reaped the wine harvest this year.
Adams County, along with Lancaster and York counties, is a part of the Pennsylvania rich wine country. There are more than half a dozen good wineries in the area and this year was ripe for grape growing. [...]

If you live in the city then you may not understand the challenges of people living in rural areas like Adams County Pennsylvania. That’s OK. Everyone has to live somewhere.
To tell the truth, I grew up in the city: Dallas, Texas. I know city living. But I was in for a real shock when I [...]

The state of Pennyslvania has announced that the 400,000th farmland preserve has been added to the state’s already huge list. In fact, Pennsylvania leads the nation in farmland preservation and we’re mighty proud of that.
As one of the most rural counties in the state, Adams County is one of the state’s most precious farmland communities. [...]

The word is out. If you some of the biggest and tastiest apples ever to come up out of the ground then Adams County is the place to go. The Adams County Nursery, to be exact.
The nursery, located in Aspers, Pennsylvania, is home to what is called October Blush, a new breed of grapefruit-size apples [...]

Adams County Pennsylvania is called Apple Country for a reason. If you want tasty, beautiful apples then this is the place to go. Biglerville, a small town just to the north of Gettysburg about seven miles, is the home of the National Apple Museum. Arendtsville, three miles west of Biglerville, plays host to the annual [...]

My wife and I enjoy picking berries. Just about every week this time of year we are off to some orchard to get our fingers juicy. If you’re a visitor in town there are plenty of places you can go for some berry-pickin’ fun. We drove out to Arendtsville today to Bower’s Orchards and picked [...]

If you like fresh produce then you might want to come by the Gettysburg Farmer’s Market. Right on the square from 7 a.m. to noon from April through October, local farmers offer their fresh cut flowers, fruit, baked breads, and other locally farmed goods. This is not pesticide-drenched supermarket stuff. This is real, fresh out-of-the-garden [...]

Our adventure this past week to find a strawberry farm where we could pick berries was quite exciting. The one we picked strawberries at last year has gone out of business. But the gentleman on his front porch was kind enough to point us in another direction. So we drove. About 20 minutes. They didn’t [...]