ELIZABETHTOWN, Pennsylvania (WGAL) — Reverend Doctor Matthew Lenahan, a Lutheran pastor in Lancaster County, uses land at Wittel Farm in Elizabethtown to grow thousands of pounds of fresh produce for those in need.
“This is exactly what I’ve wanted to do,” Lenahan said. “I grew up on a farm in central New York. It was a large commercial vegetable operation. I left that to go into ministry as an ordained Lutheran pastor and never, ever thought I would be farming again.”
Lenahan saw a need for fresh, locally grown food among those coming to his church and decided to put the land to work…