Adopt An Acre Inc., an educational nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing the loss of farmland in Berks County, has honored Robert C. Ziegenfus of Kutztown University, a central figure in the county’s agricultural preservation work for the past 25 years.

State Sen. Judy Schwank, a Ruscombmanor Township Democrat who sits on the state agricultural preservation board, said Ziegenfus led the creation of the Berks County Agricultural Preservation Board in 1989. Read more –

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