Agritourism is a field that is growing in popularity as producers try to diversify and increase profits.  By combining agriculture and tourism, agritourism offers new sources of revenue for farmers

Agritourism defined as a form of commercial enterprise that links agricultural production and/or processing with tourism to attract visitors onto a farm, ranch, or other agricultural business for the purposes of entertaining and/or educating the visitors while generating income for the farm.

Examples of Agritourism

Agritourism operations exist throughout the world. They  range from small operations that function on a seasonal basis and offer limited consumer services to large operations that operate throughout the year and provide numerous consumer services. Common examples of agritourism include:

• Mango picking patches

• Natural Foods

• Tractor rides

•  Visit farms

• Horse Riding

• demonstration farms

• agricultural museums

• living history farms

• on-farm farmers’ markets

• rural bed & breakfasts

• Bullock Cart Rides