Submitted by Cara Cummings on Thu, 06/19/2014 – 10:30am Living on the food trail has so many advantages–and on Sunday I was lucky enough to spend my day savoring some of the cheese, gelato, meats, and wines that are produced on some of the incredible farms we have right here in east central Illinois. The […]
Agritourism
Adding value to the bushel: why Michael Adsit came to our agritourism workshop
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 06/09/2015 – 9:51am Our tour stop at The Great Pumpkin Patch last summer. Join us for this year’s Agritourism Workshop! Last June, we held a training on agritourism to help farmers understand how to invite the public onto their farms. It was a great three days of speakers, tours, […]
An interview about agritourism with Rachel Armstrong, founder of Farm Commons
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Tue, 05/13/2014 – 1:36pm Rachel Armstrong, founder and attorney of Farm Commons In planning our Agritourism Farmer Training Intensive, we knew that we needed someone to speak in depth about the legal and liability issues inherent to bringing the public onto one’s farm. We also knew that we wanted Rachel […]
Diversification in Planting and Business Planning
Submitted by Bob Porter on Mon, 06/15/2015 – 9:35am I was at the Illinois Horticultural Field Day in Granville, Illinois last week. This is a yearly event attended mainly by people working in fruit and vegetable production from all over the state of Illinois. I had a chance to talk about the workshops The Land Connection offers on […]
The Experience of Creating an Experience
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Wed, 07/02/2014 – 12:34pm Wes Jarrell takes the class on a tour of Prairie Fruits Farm and Creamery. It was the end of three days of intensive training and the room was quiet as our participants pored through the multi-page evaluations I had just handed them. After a minute, one […]
