About us
Arlin Benner began farming at the ripe old age of four on the dairy farm that has been in his family for four generations. "As soon as my feet could touch the pedal, I was driving a tractor," says Arlin. He would rise at 5am every morning, feed the cows, come in for breakfast, go to school, come home from school, work until dark, eat dinner, and go to bed. Saturdays included a full day of work, but on Sundays, they had mid morning off to go to church. Such was the life of a dairy farmer and his family. Cows don't take off weekends or holidays!
Hard work paid off in 1990 when Arlin bought out his father's business and began running the farm solo. At the time, he was milking 120 cows and farming 300 acres. In 1996, life changed dramatically for Arlin when he met his Aunt's tenant, Deborah. She was a working television, print, and stage actress from New York City who had been cast in a show in Lancaster, PA. Two weeks after they met, without yet going on a date, Arlin proposed. They were married three months later. That's the short version! Their lives together in the beginning mirrored the 1960's television sitcom, "Green Acres," where the New York City wife comes to live on a farm, fluffy pink slippers and all. Of course Arlin had never seen the sitcom, because he grew up without television.