Agritourism Examples: 40 Real Farms, What They Offer and What They Charge
What should you charge?
It's the question every farm owner asks, and most lists of agritourism examples never answer it. They tell you a farm "offers pick-your-own strawberries" and move on. No price. No numbers. No clue whether it worked.
This list is different.
We checked the official websites of 50 working farms, dropped the ones that had closed or wouldn't publish a price we could verify, and kept 40 farms from 16 countries. For each one you get three things: what visitors can do, what they pay, and why it works.
You'll find a $12 alpaca tour and a €17,495 cooking course, a corn maze that charges $7 more at the gate on purpose, and a lavender farm that charges nothing to get in yet draws about a million visitors a year.
A note on prices: every price was checked on 4 October 2026, on the farm's own website unless another source is named. Where a farm hasn't posted 2026 prices yet, we say which season the price is from. Prices are in local currency ($ means US dollars unless marked), and taxes or booking fees are extra where noted. Farms change prices often, so treat these as benchmarks, not quotes.
What agritourism means, in one sentence
Agritourism is any business that invites paying visitors onto a working farm, ranch, orchard or estate to pick, learn, eat, stay or play. The 40 examples below cover seven main types: pick-your-own, festivals and corn mazes, flower farms, animal experiences, tea and coffee tours, ranch and farm tours, and estates, farm stays and cooking schools. For a fuller definition, read What Is Agritourism? A Practical Guide for Farm Owners.
Before you start: most of these farms began in trouble
Read the 40 stories and a pattern jumps out. Almost none of these farms set out to be tourist attractions.
Carter Mountain Orchard opened pick-your-own in 1974, after a freeze wrecked the crop.
Cox Farms turned to entertainment because its land wasn't fertile.
Farm Tomita lost its lavender-oil market when cheaper imported fragrance arrived.
Flying Cow Ranch couldn't make dairy pay under controlled milk prices.
Cotswold Farm Park opened because arable income wasn't enough.
Treinen Farm added a corn maze when families stopped coming to its pumpkin patch.
If your farm is under pressure right now, you're in good company. Agritourism is how many of the farms on this list got out of it.
All 40 farms at a glance
# | Farm (country) | What visitors pay for | Headline price |
1 | Carter Mountain Orchard (USA) | Pick-your-own apples and peaches | $10 weekend entry; apples $13–$55 per container |
2 | Tougas Family Farm (USA) | Pick-your-own fruit | $36 peck box (admits 2); $50 half-bushel (admits 5) |
3 | Krause Berry Farms (Canada) | U-pick, bakery, winery | Free entry; baskets C$5–C$41 |
4 | Rocky Creek Strawberry Farm (Australia) | Strawberry u-pick | A$12 adult incl. 500 g punnet |
5 | Beerenberg Farm (Australia) | Strawberry picking, jams | A$5 entry + A$13.50/kg |
6 | Garsons (UK) | Pick-your-own, pumpkins | £2.50 entry; crops by weight |
7 | Cox Farms (USA) | Fall festival | $15–$30 by date |
8 | Cherry Crest Adventure Farm (USA) | Corn maze, farm fun | $25.95–$33.95 online; $7 more at the gate |
9 | Dewberry Farm (USA) | Fall festival | $39.95 + fee; VIP $64.95 + fee |
10 | Treinen Farm (USA) | Corn maze, pumpkins | $14.99–$16.99 online; $20 at the gate |
11 | Tulleys Farm (UK) | Pumpkin festival, scream park | £12.95–£19.95 by day; scream park from £42.95 |
12 | Farmer Copleys (UK) | Pumpkin festival | £6.50–£11.50 by date |
13 | Chudleigh's (Canada) | Apple farm admission | C$18.50 adult (fall) |
14 | RoozenGaarde (USA) | Tulip display garden | $19 weekdays, $23 weekends |
15 | Hitchin Lavender (UK) | Lavender fields | £7–£8.50 entry; £4 picking bag |
16 | Farm Tomita (Japan) | Lavender fields, shops | Free entry; ¥450 soft-serve |
17 | Bridestowe Lavender Estate (Australia) | Lavender estate | Free most of the year; A$20 in bloom |
18 | Les Agnels (France) | Lavender distillery | Free self-guided; €8 guided |
19 | Jim Thompson Farm (Thailand) | Seasonal farm festival | ฿150–฿200 adult (2024–25) |
20 | YaYa's Alpaca Farm (USA) | Guided alpaca tours | $12 adult, $10 child |
21 | Cotswold Farm Park (UK) | Rare-breed farm park | £19.95 adult |
22 | Mother Farm (Japan) | Farm park, fruit picking | ¥1,800 adult |
23 | Flying Cow Ranch (Taiwan) | Leisure dairy farm | TWD 280 incl. a dairy drink |
24 | Desa Dairy Farm (Malaysia) | Dairy farm visit | RM10 locals, RM20 international |
25 | Agrodome (New Zealand) | Farm show and tour | NZ$65 adult |
26 | Mokumoku Tezukuri Farm (Japan) | Farm park, workshops | Under ¥1,000 entry; class ¥3,600 for 2 |
27 | Greenwell Farms (USA) | Coffee tours | Free tour; $49.95 class |
28 | Hacienda Doka (Costa Rica) | Coffee tour | US$28; US$43 with lunch |
29 | BOH Tea Centre Sungei Palas (Malaysia) | Tea centre, tours | Free entry; RM50 tour and tasting |
30 | Daehan Dawon (South Korea) | Green tea plantation | ₩4,000 adult |
31 | Kiambethu Tea Farm (Kenya) | Tea farm tour and lunch | KES 4,900 all-inclusive |
32 | White Oak Pastures (USA) | Tours, cabins, meat | $15 tour; cabins from $89 |
33 | Polyface Farm (USA) | Farm tours | $25 tour (sold out) |
34 | Kualoa Ranch (USA) | Ranch and movie-site tours | $59.95–$184.95 |
35 | Hobbiton Movie Set (New Zealand) | Film set on a sheep farm | NZ$130–NZ$240 |
36 | Shelburne Farms (USA) | Education farm, inn | By donation; $15 wagon tour |
37 | The Newt in Somerset (UK) | Garden membership, hotel | £100 a year membership |
38 | Babylonstoren (South Africa) | Garden, hotel, wine | R190 entry, returned as a voucher |
39 | Ballymaloe Cookery School (Ireland) | Cookery courses | €115 half-day to €17,495 for 12 weeks |
40 | Wyss farm, Grindelwald (Switzerland) | Sleeping in straw | CHF 30 a night incl. breakfast |
Pick-your-own farms (1–6): charging for the harvest
Pick-your-own is the oldest form of agritourism, and still one of the easiest to start. The big decision is whether the ticket and the fruit are sold separately or together. Our guide to creating a pick-your-own experience covers the setup.
1. Carter Mountain Orchard (Charlottesville, Virginia, USA)
What visitors can do: Pick apples (mid-August to November) and peaches, shop the country store and bakery, visit the wine shop and Bold Rock cider tap room, and come back on Thursday evenings for sunset music and food trucks.
What they charge (fall 2026): Weekend entry is $10 per person aged 12 and over, for a three-hour slot, from 12 September to 15 November. Children under 12 are free, and most weekdays are free for everyone. Fruit is extra and prepaid by container: $13 for a small bag, $23 medium, $39 for a large box and $55 for a bushel. (admission page)
Why it works: The Chiles family has grown fruit here since 1912, but pick-your-own only began in 1974, after a crop freeze, with a card table and a cigar box at a roadside stand. The $10 weekend ticket exists to manage peak crowds. An entry fee can be crowd control first and income second.
2. Tougas Family Farm (Northborough, Massachusetts, USA)
What visitors can do: Pick strawberries, cherries, blueberries, blackberries, peaches, apples and pumpkins from June to November, then visit the bakery (cider donuts), kitchen, weekend Grill Shack, playground and barnyard animals. The farm also hosts events, company outings and school trips.
What they charge (fall 2026): Apple picking is sold by the box, and the box is your ticket. A peck box (about 10 lb) is $36 and admits up to two people; a half-bushel box (about 20 lb) is $50 and admits up to five. Each extra person is $10. Pumpkins are $1 per pound ($3 minimum), and parking is free. (apple picking page)
Why it works: Nobody pays just to look, and every group leaves with fruit. Andre Tougas has called relying on four to six fall weekends for most of the year's income "nerve-wracking", so the family spread the season across crops that ripen at different times and added the bakery, a beer garden and events (Edible Boston, 2026).
3. Krause Berry Farms & Estate Winery (Langley, British Columbia, Canada)
What visitors can do: Pick berries, then eat and shop: a bakery and market, an estate winery, a waffle bar and The Porch restaurant, plus events and classes.
What they charge (2026): No entry fee. U-pick is priced by basket: C$5 for 1 lb, C$9 for 2.5 lb, C$21.50 for 6.5 lb and C$41 for 11 lb. A 10-inch blueberry pie is C$20.95 frozen or C$22.50 baked, and estate wines run about C$21–C$40 a bottle. (u-pick page)
Why it works: Krause started in 1974 with one acre of strawberries and now farms more than 200 acres, with a kitchen that makes over 100 products. Free entry brings families through the gate; pies, waffles and wine turn a C$9 basket into a much bigger bill.
4. Rocky Creek Strawberry Farm, formerly Sunny Ridge (Main Ridge, Victoria, Australia)
What visitors can do: Pick strawberries from roughly November to May, or pay more to pick mixed berries (raspberries, blackberries and blueberries), then visit the café and farm shop.
What they charge: Strawberry picking is A$12 per adult including a 500 g punnet, A$6 per child (4–12) including a 250 g punnet, or A$30 for a family of four. Extra 500 g punnets are A$8. Mixed-berry picking is A$20 per adult or A$50 per family. (u-pick page)
Why it works: The fruit is inside the ticket, so there's no weighing station and no surprise at the till. Scarcer berries cost more (A$20 against A$12). The Gallace family planted strawberries here in 1968; after selling the Sunny Ridge business, they bought back the u-pick and café site, which now has more than 300,000 plants.
5. Beerenberg Farm (Hahndorf, South Australia)
What visitors can do: Pick strawberries from November to April, eat at the Farm Café & Dairy, book a high tea, and stock up on Beerenberg jams and sauces in the farm shop.
What they charge: A$5 entry per picker (12 and under free) plus A$13.50 per kilo picked. High tea is A$80 per person. Jams and sauces sell for about A$6.50–A$6.95. (picking page)
Why it works: The Paech family has farmed here since 1839. Grant Paech started a roadside strawberry stand in 1971, pick-your-own followed in 1975, and the farm grew into a jam and condiment brand exported to 25 countries. The strawberry patch was the start of a national food brand.
6. Garsons (Esher, Surrey, UK)
What visitors can do: Pick-your-own across 155 acres from late May to October, a Pumpkin Parade in October, plus a farm shop, garden centre and restaurant.
What they charge (2026): A £2.50 farm ticket per person (ages 2 and up) gets you in; crops are charged by weight or item at the exit. The Pumpkin Parade is £6.50–£8.00 per person depending on the date, and pumpkins are extra. (ticket page)
Why it works: The Thompson family has farmed here since 1871. They started selling direct in the 1970s to compete with supermarkets, built up pick-your-own in the 1980s and added the garden centre in the 1990s. A small entry fee covers the cost of hosting, so the produce doesn't have to.
Fall festivals, corn mazes and pumpkin farms (7–13): charging for the day out
On these farms the crop is almost a prop. What families buy is a day out, and these farms have become very good at pricing it. If you're planning one, see how to organise a farm harvest festival.
7. Cox Farms (Centreville, Virginia, USA)
What visitors can do: A fall festival with hayrides, giant slides, a cornfield adventure and a goat village by day, and Fields of Fear, a haunted attraction, by night. There's also a market, birthday pavilions, corporate events and school trips.
What they charge (2026): Festival tickets are sold online only, tied to a date, at four price levels: $15, $20, $25 and $30. Weekdays are $15–$20; most October weekend days are $30. Under-2s and parking are free, and every ticket includes unlimited hayrides and a small pumpkin. Fields of Fear costs $25–$45 depending on the night. (ticket page)
Why it works: The family turned to entertainment because the land wasn't fertile. The first festival in the 1980s ran for a single weekend; by 2022 it took nearly 600 people to run. Same field, two products: families by day, teenagers and adults by night.
8. Cherry Crest Adventure Farm (Ronks, Pennsylvania, USA)
What visitors can do: More than 70 "farm fun" activities, a 5-acre themed corn maze, pick-your-own pumpkins, and pay-per-play extras such as apple blasters, paintball and gem mining.
What they charge (fall 2026): Weekdays are $25.95 online or $32.95 at the gate; October and November Saturdays are $33.95 online or $40.95 at the gate. Extras cost $6–$20 each. A season pass is $96.95 online, and a family membership for four is $324.95. (fall pricing)
Why it works: The gate price is $7 higher than the online price, which pushes families to buy ahead, before a rainy forecast can change their minds. The Coleman family opened their first corn maze in 1996 and now run a 25-acre adventure farm alongside more than 300 acres of crops.
9. Dewberry Farm (Brookshire, Texas, USA)
What visitors can do: A fall festival with more than 40 rides and attractions, an 8-acre corn maze and a pumpkin patch, plus a Christmas event, spring events, field trips and parties.
What they charge (2026): General admission is $39.95 plus a $3 fee online (ages 3 and up). VIP is $64.95 plus $3 and includes a $20 Attraction Passport for the paid extras. A family four-pack works out at $29.99 per ticket plus fees. Pumpkins are $2.99–$9.99, and season passes run $89.95–$149.95. (ticket site)
Why it works: The VIP ticket sells the extras before the family arrives, instead of hoping they spend at each attraction. The top season passes even include entry to a sister farm, Yesterland Farm in Canton, Texas.
10. Treinen Farm (Lodi, Wisconsin, USA)
What visitors can do: A 15-acre themed corn maze (2026: "The Birds and the Bees"), a children's maze, a pumpkin patch with more than 50 varieties, play areas, animals and trails.
What they charge (2026): $14.99 online for September and November dates, $16.99 online for any day including October, and $20 at the gate. Pumpkins are $3–$15 and not included. (plan your visit)
Why it works: The family planted a pumpkin patch in 1991, then noticed families stopped coming once their children grew up. In 2001 they added the corn maze to reach all ages, and USA Today has since named it one of the top 10 corn mazes in the US. The pricing rewards people who come in the quieter months.
11. Tulleys Farm (Turners Hill, West Sussex, UK)
What visitors can do: A daytime pumpkin festival, evening Pumpkin Nights, the Shocktober Fest scream park, Christmas lights, a spring tulip festival, escape rooms, a farm shop and a tearoom.
What they charge (2026): The daytime pumpkin festival is £12.95–£19.95 depending on the date, and Pumpkin Nights are £14.95–£27.95. Pumpkins are extra, priced by size from £1 to £25. Shocktober tickets are £42.95–£69.95 (plus a £3 booking fee), fast-track bundles reach £179.95, and a season pass is £300. (pumpkin festival FAQs)
Why it works: The Beare family has farmed here since 1911 and started pick-your-own in the early 1970s. Shocktober began as one haunted house in 1996 and has drawn more than 2 million visitors in 30 years. A price ladder from £1 pumpkins to a £300 pass lets every visitor spend at their own level.
12. Farmer Copleys (Pontefract, West Yorkshire, UK)
What visitors can do: A pumpkin festival with pick-your-own (more than 300,000 pumpkins in 40-plus varieties), a farm shop and butchery, a café, strawberry picking, music nights and fireworks.
What they charge (2026 festival, 26 September to 1 November): One price for everyone over 3, set in four tiers by date: £6.50, £7.65, £9.95 or £11.50, plus a booking fee. Pumpkins are paid for separately. (booking page)
Why it works: Rob and Heather Copley launched the festival in 2006 after a trip to America, and 2026 is its 20th year. By 2023 the business had about 100 staff and £5.5 million turnover (Yorkshire Post). A low entry price fills the field; pumpkins, the shop and the café do the rest.
13. Chudleigh's (Milton, Ontario, Canada)
What visitors can do: Timed three-hour visits covering apple picking, animals, wagon rides, a play area and pumpkins, plus the Blossom Café and the Chudleigh's bakery.
What they charge (2026): Fall admission is C$18.50 for adults, C$16.50 for children (4–13) and C$18.00 for seniors, with under-4s free. Summer admission was C$14.50 for adults, so fall costs about 28% more. A season pass is C$69. Hail damaged the 2026 apple crop, so check picking availability before you go. (chudleighs.com)
Why it works: Chudleigh's opened to the public in 1967. In 1973 Carol Chudleigh began selling slices of apple pie to visitors, and that pie grew into a 120,000-square-foot bakery that exports internationally. Sometimes the side product becomes the main business.
Flower and lavender farms (14–19): charging for the view, or not
A beautiful field is a product. The smart flower farms decide carefully when to charge for it, and what to sell when they don't.
14. RoozenGaarde (Mount Vernon, Washington, USA)
What visitors can do: Walk a display garden and more than 50 acres of tulip and daffodil fields in April, buy cut flowers, visit the year-round gift shop and order bulbs online.
What they charge (spring 2026): $19 per person online Monday to Thursday and $23 Friday to Sunday, with $2 more for walk-ups. Children 2 and under are free and parking is included. Cut tulips are $8 for a 10-stem bunch, or buy four bunches and get the fifth free. (festival information)
Why it works: The Roozen family built Washington Bulb Co. into North America's largest tulip and daffodil bulb producer, then opened the display garden in 1985. Weekend pricing earns more on the busiest days, and the "fifth bunch free" offer lifts the average sale.
15. Hitchin Lavender (Ickleford, Hertfordshire, UK)
What visitors can do: Walk more than 30 acres of lavender and pick your own, then come back for sunflowers in August and a pumpkin patch in October. There's a tearoom in a 17th-century barn and a shop.
What they charge: According to the farm's FAQ, field entry is £7 on weekdays and £8.50 at weekends when booked ahead (more at the gate), a picking bag is £4 and the pumpkin patch is £3. Parking, the tearoom and the shop are free to enter. A 2026 "lavender experience for two" gift voucher is £35. (FAQ)
Why it works: The Hunter family has farmed here for more than 120 years. Alec and Zoë Hunter planted lavender as an experiment in 2000, and visitor numbers grew from several hundred a season to tens of thousands each summer. Sunflowers and pumpkins stretch one short bloom into three seasons.
16. Farm Tomita (Nakafurano, Hokkaido, Japan)
What visitors can do: Walk the lavender and flower fields, see the distillery, eat at the cafés and shop for the farm's own lavender products.
What they charge: Nothing to get in. The money comes from everything else: lavender soft-serve is ¥450 a cone, the tractor-pulled Lavender Bus at the second site is ¥500 for adults, a bottle of their lavender essential oil is ¥2,200 and lavender soap is ¥858. (shop)
Why it works: Tomita planted lavender in 1958 to sell as perfume oil. Cheaper imported fragrance later collapsed that market. Then, in 1976, a photo of its fields appeared on a national railway calendar and tourists started arriving. In 2024 Japan's Nikkei reported that it draws about a million visitors a year. Free entry works when you have plenty to sell.
17. Bridestowe Lavender Estate (Nabowla, Tasmania, Australia)
What visitors can do: Walk the lavender fields, attend free talks during the Festival of Flowers, eat at the café and shop for oils, lavender gin and the famous Bobbie the Bear.
What they charge: Entry is free from February to November. During the December–January bloom, adults (16 and over) pay A$20 and under-16s are free. Lavender oil starts at A$21, and lavender honey is A$21. (Festival of Flowers page)
Why it works: Bridestowe charges only when demand peaks. It also shows what one viral product can do: after a Chinese model posted about the lavender-stuffed Bobbie Bear in 2013, about 65,000 visitors came within a year and 40,000 bears were sold (ABC News, 2014).
18. Les Agnels lavender distillery (Apt, Provence, France)
What visitors can do: Visit a working lavender distillery alone or with a guide, book group field-and-distillation experiences and aromatherapy workshops, and buy oils on site or online.
What they charge: Self-guided visits are free. Summer guided tours are €8 per person. Groups pay a flat €150 for 2–19 people, or €8 each from 20 people. In the shop, 10 ml of organic fine lavender oil is €7.90 and lavender soap is €3.95. (guided tour page)
Why it works: The Agnel family has distilled lavender since 1895, now in its fifth generation. The pricing is a ladder: free for the curious, €8 for the interested, €150 for groups, and products for everyone.
19. Jim Thompson Farm (Pak Thong Chai, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand)
What visitors can do: A once-a-season farm festival with flower and pumpkin fields, a silk-making exhibit, a recreated Isan village, food stalls, a produce market and ticketed concerts.
What they charge: For the 2024–25 edition, adults paid ฿150 on weekdays and ฿200 at weekends, and children and seniors paid ฿90. In 2023 a farm-plus-concert ticket with an Isan buffet was ฿800. (The Standard, 2024)
Why it works: The farm opens for only about a month, and it now runs every second year, with the next edition planned for December 2026. When something is rare, people plan their trip around it. Adult prices have barely moved since 2017, while concerts and food are sold on top.
Animal farms, dairies and farm parks (20–26): charging for the encounter
Animals are the easiest agritourism product to understand and the hardest to scale. These farms solved it with structure: timed sessions, set tours and clear tickets. Thinking about animals? Start with how to start an alpaca agritourism farm.
20. YaYa's Alpaca Farm (Garden City, Missouri, USA)
What visitors can do: Book a guided 90–120 minute tour: an indoor introduction to alpacas, time feeding them in the pasture, then "fiber fun" learning how fleece is processed. The farm also hosts birthday parties, field trips and a Christmas event, and runs a farm store.
What they charge: $12 for ages 14 and over, $10 for ages 3–13, and free for under-3s (who still need a ticket). Tours run twice a day for groups of 1 to 50, and you must book to see the alpacas. (tour page)
Why it works: A $12 ticket sounds small until you count the visitors: more than 16,000 last year, plus about 4,000 more for the Christmas event (KCTV5, 2026). Read our full case study: YaYa's Alpaca Farm: How a Small Alpaca Farm Became a Must-Visit Tourist Attraction.
21. Cotswold Farm Park (Guiting Power, Gloucestershire, UK)
What visitors can do: Meet more than 50 rare breeds, visit at lambing time, play in the barns, join seasonal events, eat at the restaurant and stay in the campsite, glamping pods or lodges.
What they charge: On 4 October 2026, day tickets were £19.95 for adults, £17.50 for children (4–15) and seniors, and £14.95 for toddlers (2–3). Animal feed is £1.50 a bag. Groups can book a "Highland Cow and Be a Farmer" experience at £65 per person. (group visits)
Why it works: Joe Henson founded the park in 1971 to protect rare breeds, because arable income alone wasn't enough. It's now run by his son, BBC Countryfile presenter Adam Henson. A familiar face can be part of the product.
22. Mother Farm (Futtsu, Chiba, Japan)
What visitors can do: A 250-hectare farm park with animal shows, petting areas, fruit picking, lamb barbecue restaurants, paid rides and seasonal illuminations.
What they charge: Admission is ¥1,800 for adults and ¥900 for children (4–12), plus ¥1,000 to park. Strawberry picking costs ¥500 to enter the greenhouse plus ¥1,200 for a pack of about 500 g, and it is not all-you-can-eat. A two-year pass is ¥4,800 for adults. (ticket page)
Why it works: Mother Farm opened in 1962. Its picking model is worth copying: a small entry fee plus a fixed pack price protects your crop from the eat-as-much-as-you-can visitor.
23. Flying Cow Ranch (Tongxiao, Miaoli, Taiwan)
What visitors can do: Feed animals, bottle-feed calves, watch milking, make ice cream, join cooking classes, drink fresh milk and stay overnight in rooms or on the campsite.
What they charge: Adults pay TWD 280, primary-school children TWD 220, and younger children and seniors TWD 160. Every ticket includes a dairy drink. Parking is TWD 50, rooms are TWD 3,570–6,460 a night and camping is TWD 280 per person. (ticket page)
Why it works: Flying Cow started as a dairy farm in 1975, but controlled milk prices meant dairy alone didn't pay. Inspired by Japan's Koiwai Farm, it reopened as a leisure ranch in 1995. Putting a drink in the ticket means every visitor tastes the product.
24. Desa Dairy Farm (Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia)
What visitors can do: Bottle-feed calves, feed goats, watch milking and processing through viewing panels, and buy fresh milk, yogurt, cheese and ice cream.
What they charge: Adults pay RM10 (Malaysians) or RM20 (international visitors); children aged 7–12 pay RM7 or RM10. Under-7s are free. Visits are booked online in timed sessions. (booking site)
Why it works: Desa caps numbers with three sessions a day, which protects a working dairy that produces about 900,000 litres of milk a year on 199 hectares. Two price tiers keep it affordable for Malaysians while international tourists pay more.
25. Agrodome (Rotorua, New Zealand)
What visitors can do: Watch a farm show with sheep shearing and dog herding, then take a tractor tour of a 350-acre working farm with animal feeding and kiwifruit juice and honey tastings.
What they charge: One combined show-and-tour ticket: NZ$65 for adults, NZ$33 for children (3–15), or NZ$154 for a family. (hours and prices)
Why it works: Agrodome opened in 1971, after New Zealand's sheep show at Expo '70 in Osaka proved so popular it needed a permanent home. Selling the show and tour as one ticket raises the average spend and makes the decision simple.
26. Mokumoku Tezukuri Farm (Iga, Mie, Japan)
What visitors can do: A hands-on farm park with sausage, bread and sweets classes, restaurants, a craft brewery, a hot spring, overnight stays and a members' club.
What they charge: Entry is under ¥1,000 (the farm's own pages list ¥600–¥820, so check before you go), and a sausage or bread-making class is ¥3,600 for two people. Club members get in free. (moku-moku.com)
Why it works: In 1987, about 20 local pig farmers each put in ¥2 million to start a ham workshop. Sausage-making classes followed in 1989 and the farm park in 1995. By 2012 a Japanese government small-business site reported about ¥5 billion in sales and 500,000 visitors a year. The classes turned a commodity, pork, into an experience.
Tea and coffee estates (27–31): free tour, paid cup
Plantations have a secret weapon: the tasting. Most of these estates make the tour cheap or free, because the cup sells the bag.
27. Greenwell Farms (Kealakekua, Kona, Hawaii, USA)
What visitors can do: Take a free guided coffee tour and tasting (no booking needed), join a paid brewing class or private group tour, and buy Kona coffee to take home or by subscription.
What they charge: The 45–60 minute tour is free. The Art of Coffee brewing class is $49.95 per person, private tours start at $120 for up to 10 people, and Greenwell's Private Reserve coffee is $30 for 8 oz. (tours page)
Why it works: Greenwell has been in Kona since 1850. The free tour is the farm's best salesperson: visitors taste the coffee, hear the story, then buy the bag. Read our case study: How Greenwell Farms Monetized Legacy.
28. Hacienda Doka (Alajuela, Costa Rica)
What visitors can do: A one-hour coffee tour from seedlings to roasting, a tasting of eight blends, lunch, transport packages and combinations with Poás volcano.
What they charge: The coffee tour is US$28 for foreign adults and US$14 for children (6–12). Adding lunch takes the adult price to US$43. Costa Rican residents pay about half, US$14 for the tour. (tour page)
Why it works: The Vargas Ruiz family's estate has a historic water-powered mill, and its processing plant was recognised as architectural heritage in 2003. Lunch adds US$15 to every adult ticket, and resident pricing keeps local visitors coming.
29. BOH Tea Centre Sungei Palas (Cameron Highlands, Malaysia)
What visitors can do: Take in the tea gardens from free viewing decks, eat at the café, browse the gallery and shop, or pay for a guided factory tour and tasting.
What they charge: Entry is free. A one-hour factory tour with a five-tea tasting is RM50 per person (minimum two), and a two-hour tour with a plantation walk is RM100 per person (minimum four), plus tax. (BOH, 2024)
Why it works: BOH was founded in 1929, opened this visitor centre in 2007 and expanded it in 2019 with a 200-seat terrace. The view is free; the depth is paid. It's the same model as Greenwell, on the other side of the world.
30. Daehan Dawon green tea plantation (Boseong, South Korea)
What visitors can do: Walk the terraced green-tea fields and a cedar forest, then visit the tea shop for green-tea desserts and tea to take home.
What they charge: Travel guides list admission at ₩4,000 for adults and ₩3,000 for youth, with a ₩2,000 rate for local residents. Parking is free. (TellTrip, 2026)
Why it works: The estate grows about 5.8 million tea trees and produces around 40% of Boseong's green tea. A modest gate fee plus a tea shop is a simple model any plantation can copy, and the local-resident rate keeps the price fair for neighbours.
31. Kiambethu Tea Farm (Limuru, Kenya)
What visitors can do: One experience, done well: a talk on tea history, a walk through the tea field and indigenous forest (home to colobus monkeys), drinks on the veranda and a three-course lunch from the farm's garden and dairy. Booking ahead is essential.
What they charge: KES 4,900 per person, all-inclusive, with children under 12 at half price, according to the farm's own listing. Earlier reports put it at KES 4,500–4,700.
Why it works: Founded in 1910 by A.B. McDonell, the farm bills itself as the first to grow and sell tea commercially in Kenya. His granddaughter now runs it, and the family's income comes mainly from visitors rather than tea volume. One product, one price, booked in advance.
Working ranches and farm tours (32–36): charging for the story
These farms sell something you can't pick or pet: the story of how they farm, and the land itself.
32. White Oak Pastures (Bluffton, Georgia, USA)
What visitors can do: Walking and truck tours, wagon tours for groups, cattle moves, clay shooting, cabins and houses to stay in, a restaurant and an online meat store.
What they charge: The Saturday walking tour is $15 per person. Weekday tours have a $60 minimum (covering four people), and a wagon tour is $300 per wagon of about 17 adults. Pine Forest cabins are $89–$99 a night, the Pond House sleeps six for $169–$199, and an RV site is $49. Grassfed ground beef is $13.99 a pound. (tours page)
Why it works: The family has farmed here since 1866, left industrial farming in 1995 and now employs more than 160 people. Group minimums mean a small booking never costs more to run than it earns. Read our case study: White Oak Pastures: What Every Farmer Can Learn.
33. Polyface Farm (Swoope, Virginia, USA)
What visitors can do: Hay-wagon "Lunatic Tours" of the farm, private walking tours, free self-guided visits, and direct sales of pastured meat.
What they charge (2026): The 2.5-hour Lunatic Tour is $25 per adult (children 12 and under free) for up to 125 people, and all eight 2026 dates sold out. A private walking tour is $300, and self-guided visits are free. (tour tickets)
Why it works: In 2015 the farm was reported to turn over about $2 million a year, with roughly 20% from its on-farm store and most of the rest from restaurants and buying clubs (DTN). For a farm that sells direct, a tour is marketing you get paid for.
34. Kualoa Ranch (Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii, USA)
What visitors can do: Movie-site and ranch tours, jungle and ocean tours, horseback rides, UTV tours and ziplines on a 4,000-acre working cattle ranch.
What they charge: The 90-minute Movie Sites & Ranch Tour is $59.95 for adults and $39.95 for children (3–12). The Jurassic Adventure is $149.95, a two-hour horseback ride $154.95 and the zipline $184.95, all plus tax. (kualoa.com)
Why it works: More than 200 film and TV productions have shot here, and the ranch says tour income is what lets it keep the land undeveloped. It still runs more than 600 cattle, with over 400 staff. The landscape is the product, and tourism pays to keep it farmed.
35. Hobbiton Movie Set (Matamata, New Zealand)
What visitors can do: Guided tours of the film set on the Alexander family's working sheep farm, from the standard tour to a "Second Breakfast" tour and an Evening Banquet, plus seasonal events.
What they charge: The signature tour is NZ$130 for adults and NZ$65 for youth (11–17), and children 10 and under are free. The Second Breakfast tour is NZ$200 and the Evening Banquet NZ$240 for adults. (tour page)
Why it works: Film scouts spotted the 1,250-acre sheep farm from the air in 1998, and tours began in 2002. In 2024 it had 275 staff and expected about 570,000 visitors for the season. Look at the price ladder: adding food takes the ticket from NZ$130 to NZ$240.
36. Shelburne Farms (Shelburne, Vermont, USA)
What visitors can do: Walk the trails and children's farmyard, watch cheesemaking, take a wagon tour, stay at the inn, and join education programmes and summer camps.
What they charge (2026): Day visits are by donation. A guided wagon tour is $15. Inn rooms are $200–$725 a night and cottages $335–$1,235. School programmes on the farm are $4–$8 per student, and its one-year cheddar is $14 for 8 oz. (rooms and rates)
Why it works: Shelburne has been an education non-profit since 1972, on 1,400 acres with 125 Brown Swiss cows. Its summer camps get more than 1,000 applicants for about 550 places. Education is a product too; see the farm experiences schools happily pay for.
Estates, farm stays and cooking schools (37–40): charging for the whole experience
At the top end, the farm becomes the destination. These four show how wide the price range is: from CHF 30 a night to €17,495 a course.
37. The Newt in Somerset (Bruton, Somerset, UK)
What visitors can do: Gardens, woodland and a deer park, a hotel, cyder made from 70 apple varieties, a farm shop, restaurants and a spa.
What they charge: There are no walk-up day tickets. You buy a 12-month membership: £100 for one person (£85 by direct debit), £175 for two, or £60 for locals. Members can buy guest day passes at £25. A cyder tasting is £10, and hotel rooms start at about £595 a night (Mr & Mrs Smith). (membership page)
Why it works: The Newt opened in 2019 after a six-year restoration. By 2023 it had about 600 staff and more than 250,000 day visitors a year, all through membership. Membership turns a one-off visit into a year of return trips. Read our case study: How The Newt in Somerset Built an Ultra-Luxury Agritourism Empire.
38. Babylonstoren (Simondium, Western Cape, South Africa)
What visitors can do: A 3.5-hectare edible garden with daily tours, three restaurants, wine tastings and cellar tours, a spa, a farm shop and a farm hotel.
What they charge: Garden entry is R190 for adults (under-18s free), and that fee works as a 12-month membership that comes with a R190 voucher for the online shop. Wine tasting is R220, a cellar tour with tasting R650, and a garden cottage suite R17,000–R24,600 a night. (visitor information)
Why it works: Babylonstoren has the same owners as The Newt. The entry fee comes back as a shop voucher, so the visit feels free and the shop gets a guaranteed sale. The farm dates from 1692, and the garden opened in 2010.
39. Ballymaloe Cookery School (Shanagarry, Co. Cork, Ireland)
What visitors can do: Learn to cook on a 100-acre organic farm, from half-day classes to farm and homesteading courses and the famous 12-week Certificate.
What they charge: Half-day courses cost €115–€160, one-day courses €175–€350, a week of practical homesteading €2,295, and the 12-week Certificate starting in September 2026 is €17,495. (all courses)
Why it works: Founded in 1983, the school reported a post-tax profit of €326,672 for the year to December 2025 with 76 staff, and its 12-week course was full with a waiting list (Irish Examiner, 2026). Teaching what you grow can be worth far more than selling it. See hosting cooking classes with ingredients grown on your farm.
40. Wyss family farm, "Schlafen im Stroh" (Grindelwald, Switzerland)
What visitors can do: Sleep in the hay barn of a working mountain farm from May to early September, with a breakfast made mostly from the farm's own produce. Up to 22 guests.
What they charge: CHF 30 per adult per night, including local tax and breakfast. Children pay CHF 1 per year of age, and sleeping-bag hire is CHF 5. (farm page)
Why it works: This is the cheapest farm stay on the list, and it needs little more than a clean hayloft and a good breakfast. Switzerland's national farm-tourism network lists "sleep in straw" stays at around CHF 25–35 for adults. If you have a barn, you may already have a farm stay. Then read why most farm stays are undercharging.
8 pricing lessons from 40 real farms
Put the 40 price lists side by side and the same moves keep appearing.
1. Separate the ticket from the harvest, or bundle them on purpose. Carter Mountain, Garsons, Tulleys and Mother Farm charge entry and sell the produce on top. Tougas and Rocky Creek put the fruit inside the ticket. Both work. What fails is a price nobody understands. More on this in the best way to set entry fees and ticket pricing.
2. Charge more when demand is highest. Cox Farms runs four price levels ($15–$30), Farmer Copleys four tiers (£6.50–£11.50), RoozenGaarde charges $4 more at weekends, and Chudleigh's fall ticket is about 28% higher than summer.
3. Make the gate the expensive option. Cherry Crest charges $7 more at the gate, Treinen up to $5 more and RoozenGaarde $2. Advance tickets put cash in your account before the weather has its say.
4. Free entry can pay best, if you have something to sell. Farm Tomita, Greenwell, BOH, Krause and Les Agnels let people in free and earn from soft-serve, coffee, tea, pies and oils.
5. Add food to lift the ticket. Hobbiton goes from NZ$130 to NZ$240 with a banquet, Hacienda Doka from US$28 to US$43 with lunch, and Beerenberg sells an A$80 high tea next to an A$5 picking ticket.
6. Sell the year, not the day. The Newt sells only memberships. Babylonstoren's entry is a 12-month membership. Cherry Crest, Chudleigh's, Carter Mountain and Tulleys all sell season passes. That's cash up front and a reason to come back.
7. Price for different people. Desa Dairy and Hacienda Doka charge locals less than tourists. White Oak Pastures and Greenwell set group minimums. Babylonstoren, Bridestowe and Hobbiton let children in free so parents bring them.
8. Limit supply and let demand do the selling. Polyface sold out every 2026 tour date. Jim Thompson Farm opens for about a month, every second year. Desa caps its sessions, and The Newt has no walk-up tickets. Scarcity isn't a trick when it protects your farm and your animals.
For a step-by-step method, read how to price your agritourism activities and services.
How to use these examples on your own farm
1. Find your three closest matches. Look for farms with your crop, your animals or your landscape, not your size. A five-acre berry farm learns more from Rocky Creek than from Hobbiton. Our guide to the types of agritourism businesses you can start on a small farm can help you choose.
2. Copy the structure, not the number. A ¥1,800 ticket in Chiba and a RM10 ticket in Sabah can both be right for their markets. Borrow the model (entry plus produce, free entry plus a shop, membership, tour plus lunch), then price it against what people near you already pay for a day out.
3. Test it on one weekend. Before you build anything, sell one simple experience and see who books. Here's how: How to Test Agritourism With a 60-Minute MVP. And if you want to know what the numbers could look like, read how much money you can really make from agritourism.
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Agritourism examples: frequently asked questions
What does agritourism mean?
Agritourism means inviting paying visitors onto a working farm, ranch, orchard or estate to pick, learn, eat, stay or be entertained. It turns your land, animals and know-how into experiences people pay for, alongside the farm's normal production.
What are some examples of agritourism?
Common examples include pick-your-own orchards (Carter Mountain Orchard, USA), corn mazes and fall festivals (Cox Farms, USA, and Farmer Copleys, UK), flower farms (Farm Tomita, Japan), animal experiences (YaYa's Alpaca Farm, USA, and Desa Dairy Farm, Malaysia), tea and coffee tours (Greenwell Farms, Hawaii, and BOH, Malaysia), farm stays (White Oak Pastures, USA) and cooking schools (Ballymaloe, Ireland).
How much do agritourism farms charge?
Among these 40 farms, a day visit ranged from free (Farm Tomita, Greenwell's coffee tour, BOH Sungei Palas) to about $43 with fees for a Texas fall festival. Most US family day tickets on the list cost $10 to $35, and most UK ones £6 to £20. Premium experiences cost far more: NZ$240 for Hobbiton's Evening Banquet, about £595 a night at The Newt and €17,495 for Ballymaloe's 12-week course.
Can a small farm make money from agritourism?
Yes, and several farms on this list started small. Hitchin Lavender began as a lavender experiment in 2000. YaYa's Alpaca Farm charges $12 a tour and welcomed more than 16,000 visitors last year. A Swiss mountain farm earns from guests sleeping in its hay barn at CHF 30 a night. Start with what you already have and test one simple experience first.
What is the best type of agritourism to start with?
The one that fits what you already grow, raise and own. Fruit growers can start with pick-your-own, livestock farms with guided animal tours, plantations with a tour and tasting, and farms with spare buildings with a simple stay. Find the examples closest to your farm and copy their structure.
Written by Stephen Loke of AgritourismSuccess.com, whose farm is featured in Bloomberg News and Asahi Shimbun. Prices were checked on 4 October 2026; farms update them often, so always check the farm's own website before you visit.
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