UPPER TULPEHOCKEN TWP., Pa. – From homemade ice cream to farm-fresh milk, one Berks County staple has been serving up sweet treats for generations.
69 News Reporter Sydney Kay was in Upper Tulpehocken Township with how it’s a destination on a popular trail this summer.
The Berks County Sweet & Salty Trail takes guests on a journey across the region to ice cream shops, candy stores, and pretzel bakeries, according to the Experience Berks website.
The 2026 trail runs from May 22 through Sept. 8. People can download the Experience Berks app. People then get texts right to their phone, and each location they go to they get points, and a chance to win prizes.
Many of the participating locations make their own sweet and salty products.
Lolly Lesher, with the Way-Har Farm Market, said her family’s farm is one of more than 200 dairy farms in Berks County. Her family owns and operates the farm and works with a team of employees to make sure the cows are healthy and making great, delicious milk. She said her children are the seventh-generation of dairy farmers.
Her farm milks and feeds more than 350 cows.
The milk is used in a variety of products, including ice cream. That’s where the Sweet & Salty Trail event, which the farm market participates in, comes in. Lesher said the Experience Berks organization highlights family-owned businesses that focus on food in the county.
Lesher said consumers in Berks are blessed to have so much fresh local food available to them within 10-20 minutes of their home. The family-owned businesses offer a variety of food and experiences, she said.
She said the Sweet & Salty Trail is a great way to get to know local farms and farm markets.
For a list of participating locations, people can head to the Experience Berks website.