Sow the seeds of multiple income streams and community connection on your farm. Opening your barn doors to the people is much more than sharing holiday hayrides, farm tours, and bottle-feeding lambs with friends. It is also a means of reconnecting people with their food and diversifying your farm income. Packed with decades of sustainable tourism experiences, Agritourism: A Manual for Diversifying Your Farm Income is an experience-based guide to connecting with the public and developing multiple, sustainable income streams on your farm. Chock-full of case studies, Q&A's, pros and cons, solutions, priorities, and actionable items from agritourism farms that succeeded and failed. Coverage Includes: Determining whether agritourism is right for you and your farm Types of agritourism operations, including off-farm and on-farm experiences Ideas for product and experience scenarios, including one-time, seasonal, and holiday events Making money, including how and what to charge, value-added products and services, and farm accommodation Business basics, including name, accounts, legalities, taxes, and more! If you dream of opening your farm to the public, engaging with people, and developing a diversified, sustainable income, then this A-to-Z tool kit for sustainable tourism is for you.
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Surviving Inspections: After the Use Permit Is Issued Anticipate regular inspections for health or environmental regulations. Get to know these inspectors. A positive relationship makes ... Agritourism and nature tourism in California.
In this book, readers discover many ways that farms already have more valued assets for sale than they realized as a farm only destination.
Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, and the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture., Mexico City, 2014. http://www.fao.org/3/ a-bc980s.pdf Fitri Amir, Ahmad, Ammar Abd Ghapar, Salamiah A. Jamal, ...
Additionally, the University of California Agricultural Personnel Management Program (http://apmp.berkeley.edu) offers information about labor-related topics. ... Agritourism and nature tourism in California.
She will learn all about organic farming and garden practices. MJ applies the information she learns at the farm to her school project. This is the first adventure in the series, join MJ by collecting them all! MaryJanesAdventures.com
Come join MJ on a series of educational adventures. In this book beginning the series, MJ is assigned a school project. Her and Mom set out on an adventure to Grandpa's Agritourism Farm.
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