Echo Hill Country Store

I LOVE this place !!! Every trip from the West coast to see my Aunt, I go here at least twice. If you like to cook, bake or just check out fun snack foods you might have never seen before this is the place for you.
Tons of jams and butters (like peach butter or apple butter etc.) All kinds of fours, and I mean they have flour made from things you didn’t know they could make flour from !! A huge selection of spices, extracts, baking chocolates. Sausage making equiptment ranging from books to castings and spice mixtures to meat grinders. Bagged candies, pretzels, dried fruits and nuts. A deli section, a big vitamin section, olive oils, chips, teas… just tons of fun stuff !!! Most of it is organic non GMO leaning to boot.
They buy a lot of stuff in bulk and repackage it and much of it you can buy at a better price then at your local grocery store. In my opinion the prices for most things are really, really good here.
It is a mennonite store and you will be in for a treat if the girls working in the back room break into song while you are shopping.
This place rocks !!!

You would never believe all the vegan products way out on a country road behind Fleetwood. Bulk stuff is not in bins but usually in a medium and large bagged portion. They take credit cards and have bulk frozen items too. Great for bread baking supplies. Essential oils, soap, lotion, organic coffee. Very busy every time I have been here. Beautiful country out there too.
There were very friendly spring lambs outside in the pen next door when I was here last. So incredibly sweet and beautiful, but they are not pets and will be destined for someone’s plate, sad to think about.

A large country health food store with an extensive collection of natural grains and honey and syrups and hundreds of other items. An informative staff adds that special extra that makes this plans a «find.»

I stopped here today to pick up some staples. This is really the best place to get ingredients for baking and cooking. I get all my flours, sugars, yeasts, and things like that here. Everything is in bulk, so prices are cheaper. They sell King Arthur flour which is a plus too.
My favorite part is that they have harder to find ingredients such as pizza dough flour. They have many different oils, vinegars, and things like that. Be sure to check out the spices, which are cheaper. They even had a variety of cinnamons to pick from.
On the weekends I’ve seen baked goods and veggies for sale outside, so that’s another bonus.

I’ve never seen a store like this, they have just about everything you could ever think of. Their spices are so much cheaper than the grocery store and in larger containers. Same quality, larger selection. If you like mixed nuts and dried fruits, try their snack mixes they are of excellent quality. I made fruitcakes this Christmas using a dozen different dried fruits I purchased here. I’m lucky to live only a few miles from here, we go once a month for various needs.
I’m not into alternative diets (gluten free, etc) but they also have a good selection of these items as well as natural sweeteners and local honey.

This place has it all for a reasonable price. Spices, flour, mixes, dry goods, candy and bulk food. Dried fruit Fresh lunch meat. Craft sodas. Cheese and milk. Vitamins and supplements
Top notch friendly service, does take credit cards. Ill be back.

If I could give this shop six stars, I definitely would. This is an incredible place!
First of all, everything is super inexpensive. They sell all kinds of kitchen staples, baking ingredients, snacks, candies, beauty products, dairy products, and organic items. You can buy many of the products in bulk, driving the already amazing prices down even further.
My boyfriend and I stocked up on a big bundle of delicious country treats for under ten dollars. I wish I could find something like this in Philadelphia!
Plus, there’s a big flock of adorable sheep in the adjacent field. Seriously, what’s not to love about this place?

As a natural foods consumer, I was happy to find this little gem while visiting my wife’s family in Fleetwood. I’m not sure why any previous posters felt this place was dirty. I found it to be very clean, well stocked and the Amish folks that ran it to be swift, efficiant and friendly. They also accept SNAP cards (food stamp cards) and ship through their website. My in laws have lived in the Reading area for decades and NONE of them knew of this place. The only pitfall? They’re only open from 8−5pm and closed on Sundays… but being that they’re Amish (or Mennonite?), this really did not surprise me.
The prices are awesome, the selections are plentiful… and they sell RAW MILK! This is something that is ILLEGAL in Colorado, where I live (but we are planning to move to PA within the next few years), but I was pretty pleased to find it by the gallon! They have a small but well stocked deli case and more spices, preserves, bulk goods and baking supplies than I know what to do with. This culinary foodie was in HOG HEAVEN! We will be back at least once between now and the day we go back home!
When we move to Reading, this WILL be my major source for groceries…

It may be cheap in some things but not real clean. I’d be scared to eat much from here.

This place is amazing. Bulk dry goods of anything you can imagine, at excellent prices.
$ 2.12 for a half gallon of lucky charms marshmallows!!!

The pre-​packaged food is great and they have a lot of items that are hard to find. It is a little expensive though.

I moved to Philadelphia about a year ago, and I must say, I miss this store so much. As a baker, finding different types of flour like cake, pastry, whole wheat, etc, AND at such a great price is really very difficult. Echo Hill has it all. And now I’m sitting alone in my room eating a pack of cappuccino snack mix and mixed vegetable chips my mom got for me for Valentine’s Day from Echo Hill. Gahhhh I miss this place.

I love Echo Hill Country Store. They have a large selection of simple, healthy foods. I go there mostly for raw nuts, but always find plenty of other interesting items to add to the cart. Their spice aisle is great, and I never leave the store without finding at least one treat from their large candy selection.

this place is great. very friendly help. great product selection. it is a bulk food store if you don’t know. amazing variety of whole grains and things like that. oh and organic foods products like you would find at a health food store for better prices. definitely worth the drive from the Lehigh Valley which is where i drive from. Bethlehem. so about an hour drive.

Impressive selection! Coming from the DC area, we were travelling home to Allentown and a friend told us about Echo Hill.
The prices vary — some items are a deal but many were on par with what we’ve paid around here. King Arthur Flour (non-​organic) was a great price. Their bulk natural peanut butter was a bit more per pound than Whole Foods, but whipped in a way that it doesn’t separate — great! My fiancé found pasta shapes that he grew up with, while not a deal, they weren’t over priced, either. I do like how everything has very minimal packaging.
If you’re into cake/​cookie decorating — wow! Sprinkles of every type and shape, and the biggest container of red food dye I’ve ever seen in my life.
In addition to the bulk foods they have a great selection of current organic and other «hippie» brands.
Certainly a place to check out, it’s not far off 222 and you’ll be inspired to cook or bake something afterwards!

This store is amazing — out in the middle of the cornfields (28 miles from my home in Whitehall, south on Rt. 222), it has the biggest selection of bulk products that I have ever seen in one place, even in California. Rows and rows of shelves with a huge variety of flours, spices, whole grains, pasta, mixes of all kinds, eco-​friendly cleaning supplies, organic cereals — some stuff you can find at a health food store or the health food section of your super market, but Echo Hills has a much greater variety and in most cases, is way less expensive. it’s the bulk food section that makes the trip worthwhile for me.
There is a small refrigerator section with a variety of cheeses and organic frozen stuff — Wegman’s beats them in this particular area with a greater selection of cheeses and frozen organic food. This probably serves people okay who don’t have access to a Wegman’s. A small deli department has a small variety of meats that also can be found in greater variety elsewhere. These things are a convenience, but not what I would make the trip out there for.
I can’t begin to list the things they have. I didn’t need much because I’d just done my road trip to Trader Joe’s in Jenkintown, Costco in Montomeryville, Swann’s and the bread outlet in Quakertown– over 100 miles round trip. Next time I’ll save myself some driving and just go out to Echo Hills! Check out driving directions carefully as it is just a little tricky to find the first time — it is literally out in the cornfields!

Holy crap, dry goods! Super cheap bulk spices, dry goods, and organic/​health products. I just bought a POUND of chili powder.
If you live in the area, it’s definitely worth a visit.