Editors on July 19th, 2010

AGRITOURISM – TRENDS: Interested in making crop circles as an agritourism draw? Here’s a link to a history and guide on how to make crop circles from the UK.
Similar to corn mazes, but steeped in more mystery and attracting huge crowds, a handful of English farmers in the past along with “cereologists” have [...]

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AGRITOURISM — It’s not just young and newbie small-scale farmers who embrace agritourism to help their farm’s profit. The long-time small-scale farming community is also restoring its rural livelihood with agritourism as well.
Here’s Farmer Bob Ricci in his own words about his journey back to full time farming:
My great-grandpa homesteaded our farm in 1888. [...]

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AGRITOURISM — TRENDS: If your small scale farming operation utilizes agritourism as a way to make money from the farm, here are four travel forecasts from AAA to consider. 1. Train travel is predicted to grow in popularity. With the economy troubles and airline travel safety restrictions becoming a headache, more people are traveling [...]

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Editors on August 28th, 2009

MARKETING — TRENDS — AGRITOURISM — VALUE-ADDED: Corn harvest has begun. Here’s a digest of how several farmers make money farming a relatively low-cost crop – corn. One farmer gathered corn stalks and tied them with brown bailing twine and sold them as autumn, Thanksgiving and Halloween decorations. Dried shell corn as squirrel feed [...]

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AGRITOURISM — MARKETING: Attract more customers to your micro farm or small agritourism farm with a new media angle about local wildlife. As explained in book, The New Agritourism, press releases will bring you more media and customers if they have a unique “angle.” As an angle, invite a local member of the [...]

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