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The New Agritourism: Hosting Community and Tourists on Your Farm

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The New Agritourism is a beneficial guide for sustainable development and tourism programs. It is an excellent resource focusing on the implementation of agritourism and community based tourism projects. It is useful not only for farmers but anyone interested in supporting local culture and foodways. Academic institutions, NGOs and tourism providers focusing on cultural and natural heritage would greatly benefit from this book. Public agencies and business owners (lodgers and retailers for instance) can discover new ways of collaborating with local farmers on projects that benefit their whole community. In times like these, developing innovative ways to strengthen communities is crucial. The New Agritourism is a great place to start.

Nikki Rose, Crete's Culinary Sanctuaries Eco-Agritourism Network, Greece

I found this book to be helpful and clearly written, giving me many practical ideas and perspectives for enhancing the income streams on my own small farm. Barbara Berst Adams highlights a variety of innovative businesses being run by entrepeneurs on small acreages. Anyone making or supplementing their income with products, services or tourism on a small land holding is sure to find valuable information in this book. While its challenging to start and run such businesses, it IS possible, and very rewarding. I highly recommend this book as a source of new ideas and support for those already in or contemplating ventures in these new "industries"!

This book is really helpful and comprehensive. It fills a much-needed niche for information on agritourism development.

This book is full of great ideas for small farmers. It won't teach you how to do any of them really but the amount of inspiration is great. I love going back to this one and dreaming. I plan to use many of the ideas she offers.

There are many farm profiles with great advice and I love all the links as well. If you are looking for agritourism ideas, you should find them here.