Travel with Amateur Traveler · Saturday, September 26, 2026
Lancaster County has a strong agricultural history, with tobacco and dairy farming being significant. The cultivation of tobacco is described as labor-intensive, with many Amish people still involved in this practice. The guest, Chris Burley, grew up on a tobacco and dairy farm in the western part of the county.
“I grew up in the western part of the county on a tobacco and dairy farm, of all things.”
“The tobacco, interestingly enough, there's a lot of tobacco grown in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It's a very manual, very labor-intensive type of work. And a lot of Amish people that are in Lancaster are still grow it.”
“And then the dairy farm on which I grew up was a completely different endeavor.”