Garden Spot JANUARY 28, 2026
SERVING OUR COMMUNITIES SINCE 1954
REACHING MORE THAN 11,290 HOMES
NHAHS Volunteers Will Inject New Life Into Local History
New Year,
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BY JEFF FALK
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he New Holland Area Historical Society (NHAHS) is looking for a few good people, both ladies and gentlemen. An interest in history, especially local history, is desired but not required. “It’s primarily for people who want to preserve and respect the connection with history,” said Bill Gable, the treasurer of NHAHS. “It’s an opportunity to spend time with people who share the same sentiment. There’s a sense of satisfaction that NHAHS volunteers (from left) Art Johnsen, Larry Knepper and Lloyd Ziegler comes from doing things that prepare to execute a service project. NHAHS has a need for new vol- which tasks itself with preserving are beneficial to the area. You enjoy what you’re doing, and it makes you unteers that is both general and and promoting history related to very specific. The local nonprofit, the New Holland area, is seeking to feel good you’re contributing.”
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You Can’t Feed the Hungry Without Breaking a Few Sauder’s Eggs BY JEFF FALK
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See Sauder’s Eggs pg 5 Volunteers unpack a donation of Sauder’s Eggs.
Where Food and Community Take Root BY CAT SHANNON
On a stretch of preser ved farmland in Elizabethtown, transformation happens every day at a space that offers reconnection - with the land, with one another and with the essential act of growing food. This is Wittel Farm, a nonprofit on 85 acres of land with a long history of care, now being reimagined as a place where food, community and environmental stewardship meet. Records date the property to the mid-1700s, and long before that it was cared for by the Susquehannock people. In the 1980s, Chuck and Katie Wittel placed the property into a land trust, gifting it to the Lutheran Camping Corporation. While not much was produced at the farm for many years, that changed in 2016, when the farm’s current manager, the Rev. Matt Lenahan, began the Growing Project, a partnership between the Lutheran Camping Corp., the Lower Susquehanna Synod and Hunger-Free Lancaster County. L enahan, pastor of Zion Lutheran Church in Akron, grew up on a large commercial farm in New York and once thought he would never farm again after entering ministry. His thinking shifted as he became more aware of food insecurity and the fragility of modern food systems. “I really star ted to think about the food system and how food-dependent we are because so few of us are actually participating in the food production,” he said. “We’ve really stepped See Wittel Farm pg 6
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Flexible and multifaceted, eggs make incredible souffles and terrific omelets. Nutritious and delicious, eggs make savory quiches and magnificent custards. Eggs also make the perfect donations. “They’re the most versatile protein out there,” said Wade Smith, Sauder’s Eggs’ chief operations officer. “Eggs are used in everything you can think of. You can have eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner. There are a million ways to prepare eggs. They are one of the most
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