Plan to start a green business, home business, or is your current growing businesses a B&B, country hotel, or rustic hotel? You can cash in on the growing eco-travel and huge local food movement by adding an easy boutique mini farm company to your present green small business or small business plan, even on less than an acre.
small business owners of hotels and bed and breakfasts, as well as innkeepers, can dramatically increase their business profits, word-of-mouth marketing, and attract significantly higher numbers of bed-and-breakfast, country inn or rural hotel guests by surrounding their agricultural or little city accommodation business with a synergizing 2nd money stream — either a’micro eco-farm,’ or’agritourism,’ or both. A micro eco-farm is a small cottage or boutique mini-farm that operates for profit with eco-friendly practices. Agritourism means hosting guests on a real farm for more money for the farm owner. Most green bed and breakfast, country inn or agricultural hotel treatments involve green energy additions and reduced indoor poisons, and these are worthy. But the next cool green trend developing is local sustainable food production, along with a renaissance of savory lost heirloom, gourmet, and workman food lover delights that are simply grown, but not supplied by conventional food production. Bed and breakfast half moon bay
Below we’ll explain how to do it easily and successfully.
But first, here are the many benefits:
1. You’ll add a big customer draw to your B-and-B, country inn or rural hotel. Owners of hostels even in more urban settings can create their own exclusive chef gardens which are becoming very popular for 5-star eateries. For rural hotels, bed and breakfasts, and country hotels, the attractiveness of farmstays has grown significantly. Purdue university reports that visits to real farms are the fastest growing segment of tourism in the country. Folk love to see rambling hens that produced the eggs for their breakfast, pet one or two rare wool sheep that provided wool for the throws on their beds, or tour a blueberry patch and organic market garden.
2. You can add revenue by producing farm-grown non-perishable products to sell retail to your visitors. Farm grown and made strawberry jam, world-cuisine salsas, hand-woven Shetland sheep ( rare miniature sheep that produce luxurious wool ) scarfs, herbal candles, hand-crafted goat-milk soap. Even a tiny city bed and breakfast with an herb garden can make sachets. These items can be sold year-long online also. Guests like to take home something tangible from their stay, and like to be reminded of their stay by continuing to get items for themselves and as gifts online after they return home.
3. You can further draw new clients by offering agritourism activities, when you own a genuine farm. Allow guests to tour your flower garden or collect their own eggs and pick their own blueberries, view the ducks or pet the goats.
four. You can generate even more sources of money while simultaneously getting more word-of-mouth marketing with agritourism activities that you offer for an additional fee. Offer them not only to bed and breakfast, country inn or rustic hotel guests, but also to day visitors, or both, allowing yourself to generate profits from much more than just overnite clients. As an example, provide a periodical cooking class using the farm’s ingredients that both overnite or day guests can pay to attend, a gardening workshop in spring where you can also sell garden starts to the community, or give tours of the farm to school children for $5 a head during weekdays when you have less overnite clients. 2 tours in a day with fifty children each not only brings an extra $500 for the day, but kids and adult chaperones will begin generating valuable personal recommendation selling about your B and B, country inn or rural hotel.
five. You can cut costs on flowers and food. The flowers and food items you grow yourself will look and taste excellent, have the shopper appeal of being domestically grown, and cut your debts. Further, you can grow those exotic African jelly melons or miniature Mexican cucumbers that no other B-and-B, country hotel or rustic hotel offers.
six. You can stay ahead of other farmers because of your bed-and-breakfast, country hotel or agricultural hotel. The giant issue for many farmers isn’t just growing the crops or raising the animals. It’s knowing there are enough patrons waiting to buy the product. With your farm’s crops serving your own B-and-B, country hotel or agricultural hotel and its retail shop and agritourism activities, you have got your own self-made market.
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