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Agritourism Business Success
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“If We Were in the Wholesale Business, We’d Be Out of Business”: How Applecrest Flipped From 90% Wholesale to 80% Retail by Letting Everyone In Free (14 Lessons Every Farmer Can Use)
How a 113-year-old New Hampshire orchard escaped the wholesale trap with free admission, 34 festival days, hot cider donuts and pick-your-own, plus 14 lessons any farmer can put to work.
Stephen Loke
24 min read
4 Acres of Rice, Then $10 at the Gate, $350 a Night and $1.2 Million to Live There: 13 Congaree and Penn Lessons Any Farmer Can Steal
They planted four acres of rice in Florida when nobody else would. Today Congaree and Penn charges $10 at the gate, rents bungalows for about $350 a night and offers 10-acre homesteads for up to $1.2 million. Here are 13 lessons any farmer can steal.
Stephen Loke
25 min read
A Freeze Killed Their Crop in 1974. Now Visitors Pay $10 Just to Get Through the Gate: 13 Carter Mountain Orchard Lessons Any Farmer Can Steal
How the Chiles family turned a 1974 freeze-out, a card table and a cigar box into Carter Mountain Orchard, one of Virginia's best-known pick-your-own destinations, plus 13 lessons any farmer can steal.
Stephen Loke
22 min read
Olive Oil at 12 Times the Market Price, and From €50 to Brush a Donkey: How Fattoria di Maiano Built a €3 Million Agritourism Estate (13 Lessons Any Farmer Can Steal)
How the Miari Fulcis family turned 20,000 olive trees, a forgotten Victorian park and a farm village near Florence into a €3 million agritourism business, plus 13 lessons any farmer can steal.
Stephen Loke
21 min read
From 'Not Making a Lot of Money' to 300,000 Pumpkins and 8,000 Visitors a Day: 12 Farmer Copleys Lessons Any Farmer Can Steal
How Rob and Heather Copley turned a Yorkshire farm that was not making much money into a 300,000-pumpkin festival, a million-tulip spring event and the UK's Large Farm Shop of the Year, plus 12 lessons any farmer can steal.
Stephen Loke
23 min read
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