Farmland Fun and Verdant View Farm in the News
Verdant View Farm has been hosting guests since 1967. Over the years, the farm
has been featured in many TV, news and magazine publications. Here is a sampling
of the coverage.
TV coverage
Magazine and Newspaper articles
- Family Circle, September 2008, pg. 106.
- The New York Times, Friday May 25, 2007. "Summer Weekends: Get Out
and Go" pg. D10.
- County Line Magazine, Spring 2005. "Nearby Getaways: Try a Lancaster
County Farm Vacations" by Danna Cornick.
- Asbury Park Press, Sunday, October 16, 2005. "Bridging the gastronomic
divide in Lancaster County" by Ann Witmer. (same article appeared in East
Brunswick Home News Tribune, Morristown Daily Record and Bridgewater Courier
News).
- AAA Car & Travel, December 2003. "Verdant View is especially appealing
for families.." by Stephanie M Petrellese
- New Jersey Herald, May 9, 2003. "Verdant View Farm lives up to its
name.. Amish community is half a day's drive and a world away from home."
by Sherry Karasik. "Lest you think this B&B is typical of the sort you would
find in youir travels, think again. This is a working farm, and everything
this implies - cattle in the front yard, barnyard cats, dogs, goats, a resident
swan, a family of geese..."
- The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, September 3, 2000 "A journey to
simplicity" pg. L4, by Cindy Ross
- National Geographic Traveler, September 2000 "Green Acres" by Stacy
Tillilie. "Vacationing on a working farm is not an oxymoron. Especially when
you're in Paradise."
- Bondebladet, September 23, 1999 (Norway).
- Travel Destinations, "Down on the Farm" by Gerry Watkins. November
1997. "Visitors to the dairy farm not only discover where milk comes from,
they can learn to get milk from the cow, help with other farm chores, fish
in the nearby pond or just sit in the back yard and enjoy the serenity of
starlit skies, fresh air and the song of a bird."
- Backroads, November 1997. "Verdant View Farm." Delaware Today, February
1996. "Escape Plans" by Salley Rinard.
- Child Magazine, May 1995. "Of Cows and Cowboys" by Allison Kyle Leopold.
- Los Angeles Daily News & AP wire, Bangor Daily News, The Herald,
June 12, 1994. "City folk learn plain ways on Pennsylvania Farm" by Jayne
Clark.
- Martha Stewart Living, June / July 1993. "Country Comfort" by Bill
Marsano.
- The Times Saturday Review, February 20, 1993. "The World According
to Jakob" by David Nathan.
- Vogue Knitting, Fall 1992. "Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.."
- Country Magazine, Parent Magazine, November 1990. "Down on the Farm"
by Brooke Jennings Kane.
- Sunday Telegram, September 30, 1990. "B&Bs in Amish Country," by
Fran Pennock Shaw. (same article in The Trenton Times, May 11, 1989. "How
to Enjoy Lancaster County and Avoid the Tourists,")
- The Journal, September 27, 1990. "Fall farm stays in PA," by Peter
Vandevanter.