Amish Country Embraces Farm-to-Table

This public market, housed in its original 19th-century building, is the place to buy pickles, sausage and a lot more directly from locals. The Amish-owned Stoltzfus Home Style Bakery stocks raw alfalfa honey ($7.95 for 17 ounces) and raspberry jam made from its own berries ($2.75 for eight ounces); Tulip Tree Hill Farm sells duck eggs ($4 per half dozen), mixed edible blossoms ($3 a bag) and calligraphy ink the proprietor makes from walnut husks ($5 for 1.5 ounces).

Comfort food is always the order of the day at this French-Italian restaurant. (The $29 dish of duck biscuits and gravy is topped with a fried egg, pea tendrils and crispy rendered duck skin). The chef, Taylor Mason, and his wife, Leeann, honed their culinary skills in Napa, Calif., before opening Ma(i)son four years ago.

This distillery, opened in 2013 in a former tobacco warehouse, produces small-batch rye whiskey, gin and vodka from local grains in a handmade copper still. Take a free Saturday tour of the place, where fraktur folk art hex signs are a nod to the owner Andrew Martin’s Mennonite heritage; end with a black pepper and smoked vanilla white rye Pop Deluxe cocktail at the bar ($8).

Ole Hongvanthong, a native of Laos, opened this photo studio in a light-filled storefront a year ago and sells restored film cameras, such as a 24-karat-gold-plated Polaroid from 1976 ($2,000). Make an appointment to pose for your tintype — the early form of photography will preserve your likeness for generations, on silver nitrate-dipped aluminum ($50 for a 4-by-5-inch).

Lancastrians pack into this 19th-century, brick-walled storefront overlooking the Fulton Opera House for its locally roasted coffee and Lady Grey tea lattes with house-made lavender syrup.