{"id":155242,"date":"2026-04-02T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155242\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T10:00:14","slug":"great-reading-in-berks-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/155242\/","title":{"rendered":"Great reading in Berks Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two articles in the March 25 edition of Berks County captured my particular interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/03\/25\/berks-country-watches-scrapple-being-made\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThe making of scrapple,\u201d<\/a> Bill Uhrich\u2019s piece on the Dietrich family\u2019s meat production, captures the Pennsylvania German ethic: Leave nothing to waste and use it to make something good to eat. And note regional differences in production and taste.<\/p>\n<p>Clyde Myers, who regularly reports on agricultural land preservation, wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.readingeagle.com\/2026\/03\/25\/preserving-farmland-essential-for-agri-business-system\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cPreserving farmland essential for agri-business system.\u201d<\/a> The long history of the Heller family farm in Heidelberg Township, now preserved, dates to William Penn, a worthy point to note in the year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence.<\/p>\n<p>Solomon Lausch<\/p>\n<p>Bern Township<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two articles in the March 25 edition of Berks County captured my particular interest. \u201cThe making of scrapple,\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,5037,1559,28,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-155242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}