WEBVTT - How Agritourism Works 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:02.840 Brought to you by the reinvented two thousand twelve camera. 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:07.560 It's ready. Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:16.320 from House Stuff Works dot Com? Hey, and welcome to 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.040 the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W Chuck Bryant 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:22.400 that makes the stuff you should know. It feels like 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:25.640 it's been forever since we've been in the studio. Yeah, 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:28.440 this chair, my chair no longer stinks. They had time 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.200 to air out. And you know I've said it before, 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.600 I'll say it again. If we could roll the first 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.400 three minutes before we actually hit record on this puppy, Yeah, man, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:40.400 well gold do you think? I think? What are the 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:43.400 ones they give for a spoken word? 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You should know our Facebook 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:22.039 page and like us, like get us to fifty can 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:25.120 you please get us to the gent And for the 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.560 gentleman who said that it makes him want to unlike 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:31.680 it because we ask people to like it. Just what's 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:35.400 going on, buddy, what's going on in your life? So 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.880 it's called marketing. You're ready, Yeah, you're ready. Let's market 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:42.200 some agri tourism. I have an intro. Let's hear it. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.560 So back in two thousand and seven, the little newsine 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:48.720 may have slipped past because it was south of the 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:53.840 border Florida. Um. A guy named that's usually Mexico. When 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:57.000 you say that, By the way, again, if we're not 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.400 in Texas, we're in Georgia, So south of the border 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:03.680 means Florida, Okay. A guy named Ronald Levins Sr. And 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:09.560 his wife Jequita Evans got some pretty hefty time. Ron 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:14.359 Evans got thirty years for what amounted to indentured servitude. Right. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.640 This guy ran some Florida labor camps where people would 0:02:19.639 --> 0:02:21.520 go and like this is where they would stay and 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.640 bunk and eat at night, and then during the day 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:30.000 they get bus to farms to work right Orange Groves wherever. 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:35.760 I think lettuce is big there too. Um the that's 0:02:35.760 --> 0:02:40.640 all legal and kosher. They they even actually employed the homeless. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:44.639 They would go around to Miami, Baton Rouge, New Orleans. 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:46.760 I don't think they came to Atlanta, but they went 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.880 to big cities in the southeast and recruited homeless people 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.079 living on the street and said, hey, we can give 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:55.639 you a job. You know. Yeah. The problem came with 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.440 the indentured servitude part. They had a company store at 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:03.160 their labor camp and it sold a gallon of wine 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:06.160 for forty bucks. And you should know right off the 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:08.280 bat that you can't get a good gallon of wine 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.240 that's all cheap. So they had really inflated prices. Cigarettes 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.480 were through the roof, and the crack cocaine was above 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.160 market value. The stuff they sold at the company's store 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.560 that they eventually got all the guys addicted to gave 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:25.760 them advances of crack against their paychecks and basically got 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.320 these guys mired in debt to where they were indentured 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:33.799 servants slaves. He's got the guy finally got busted. He 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.040 was a really smart dude. Yeah, because he was running 0:03:37.080 --> 0:03:39.720 him not just in Florida, but North Carolina. Uh and 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:43.240 uh possibly South Carolina as well. He's like, I've discovered 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:48.120 something really really great. So that um is the exact 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:53.520 opposite of agratourism, and that's your setup. That's pretty good. Uh. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:55.720 I thought I didn't see where that was going because 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:58.120 the whole time I was sinking. All right, that's fine, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.640 he's paying these people, gets homeless people, put them to work, 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.240 puts them up in a in a bunk. What's what's 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:08.000 the problem forty gallon of wine? Well, the crack is 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.000 kind of a big problem too. He had all the 0:04:10.040 --> 0:04:14.080 farmers paying him in cash in return for the labor, 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:16.800 so he could go buy massive amounts of crack. So 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:18.800 the company's store never ran out of crack from what 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.560 I understand. Well, and they were probably fairly secluded, you know, 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:24.680 it's probably the only store around. They probably didn't have cars. No, 0:04:25.000 --> 0:04:29.160 they probably depended on that store they did and that crack. Yes, So, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.880 like I said, that's the opposite of agraa tourism. What 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:38.240 is the positive the the I guess what is agri tourism. Well, 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:41.640 it's when you want to attract guests and visitors to 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:46.560 come to your business, your farm, to either observe or 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.839 actually take part in the business, the family business. Okay, 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.920 let's go. Is that good? That's it. That's that was 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.080 agra tourism explained. Like you know, let's just give it 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:00.440 one example. Say you can go to California and you 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.640 can stay at a winery and instead of just kicking 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.960 back on the porch all day and sampling wine, you 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.440 can go out and you can pick the grapes and 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.320 you can learn how it's done and in the hand 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.600 and uh eat eat the food that's produced there. Maybe 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.279 if it's a farm, that kind of thing. So I 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:19.320 think sideways, the film was entirely bankrolled by the California 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.680 Agritourism cartel, I think so. I mean, think about it, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.400 like the whole movie is about an agritourism trip that's 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:30.159 essentially not even essentially like that is in every way agritourism. 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:34.000 Like they went from one one winery to another winery. 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:37.520 They watched the grapes get stomped. Did they even did 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.600 they participate in grape stomping? I don't remember, I don't remember, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.120 But did you ever see that video on YouTube. Oh yeah, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.880 the woman stomping grapes. Yeah, here in Atlanta. Yeah, it 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.440 was Fox five that it happened on. And have you 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.920 seen Keyboard cat Player out d d d Dodo Doo 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.800 ding do. Yeah, it's pretty It's really sad because she 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.800 seems genuinely hurt. But the noise that she makes, it's once, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.440 you hear it once, it is stuck in your crawl forever. Yeah. Yeah, 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.880 that's grape stompings. So that's a that's a pretty good 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:10.840 example of agri tourism right and wrong. I think we 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.240 should well, yes, in her case, in her case, but 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.560 Sideways is a good um example. I took that tour, 0:06:18.200 --> 0:06:23.400 did I know? No, No, No, that was northern California. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.600 We we did the little that Sideways was done in 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.240 southern like Santa Barbara. Oh I thought it was in 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.480 Napa Valley. No, no, it was in It was in 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.040 Napa where it was. Well, then all those places I 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:36.600 went to that we're in the movie must have been 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.279 wrong in the movie. It was supposed to be Napa. 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:44.800 Five dollars okay. Actually, actually well, to h the one 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.760 winery with the guy with a big beard, I actually 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:49.480 hung out with that guy for like an hour of 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.920 drinking wine, the dude from the movie, and like we 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:53.679 were the only people in there. The sun was setting. 0:06:53.720 --> 0:06:56.719 It was one of those magical moments that sounds touching. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:04.240 So chuck, Um, what's the what's the point of agriturism, Well, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:07.320 it helps there. Well, it's because farmers are having to 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.640 diversify a little bit in most cases to make dough. Yeah, 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:15.480 I read an exactly. Well, with the advent of the 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:21.480 factory farm, right, we've got very a very small percentage 0:07:21.520 --> 0:07:25.240 of farms number wise, right, Um, say one factory farm 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:29.440 equals one farm that's an enormous farm. Uh, in both 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:34.680 like revenue and you know, acreage production. Um, they represent 0:07:34.760 --> 0:07:37.280 a very small number of the number of farms, but 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.720 just proportionately large, um total of the revenue made and 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.680 of the stuff produced in the US. Right. So that's industrialization, right, 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:49.640 And one of the one of the other aspects of 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:51.600 industrial I know where you're going next, but one of 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.720 the other aspects of industrialization is um apparently you have 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:59.440 to have a gross revenue of fifty grand a year 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.720 from your farm to start to actually be able to 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:08.040 sustain your family through farming. Seventy in two thousand seven 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:13.600 seventy five. No, I'm sorry. This year, se of farms 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:17.200 in the US made less than fifty grand a year. 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.960 So this is one of the reasons why they're saying, well, 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.240 I don't really want to give up farming and become 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:25.920 a city slicker because I hate city slickers, but I 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.080 like city slickers money. So let's supplement our income and 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.520 start some agritourism. Yeah, yeah, that's a great reason. What's 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.839 the other reason that farmers are being forced to go 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.640 into agritourism. I'm glad you asked globalization because with the 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.480 way shipping is now in communication around the world and 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.160 things move at the speed of light, you're not just 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:49.000 competing with the farm like in your county or in 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:52.040 your state. You're competing with like a farm across the 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.520 universe from yourself for the world. In the world. The 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.160 world's fat enough. Don't bling the galaxy into this. You're 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.319 you're in big trouble, moon farmer. We get in intergalactic 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:07.520 competition moisture farmers. So we've got globalization, industrialization. Those are 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.719 pretty much the two big drivers of agritourism. But you know, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.280 you can't put it past farm folks to to be 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.679 um well smart and farm smart, and that what they 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.800 call it. I never heard that, but I love that term. 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.880 I thought i'd picked that up from you. Are you sure? No, 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.720 I never have heard that before. Well there's farm smart, 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:34.760 farm strong. No, No, that's lived strong, farms smarts. So chuck. Um. 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:38.280 There's a few different ways that this can pan out. Right, 0:09:38.920 --> 0:09:43.520 Let's say you're at the dollar level and you don't 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.320 care about new stuff. You're just fine sewing your old clothes. 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:51.120 But you want to keep farming. Um, you would you 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:54.880 would use agritourism as like a supplementary income, right, Yeah, 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.880 just add a little like you might do tours things 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.120 like that. And you know I should add that when 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:02.360 I was a kid. Was it Robert that wrote this, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.880 Robert Lamb? Yeah, it's an unusually thin article from Robert 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.800 Lamb of stuff to blow your mind. Well, he makes 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.040 a point early on that, um, it provides a connection 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:17.920 that people has been lost between the stuff we put 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:21.280 in our body and in the person. Yeah. Because and 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:23.079 I've read that and it really hit home because when 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:24.959 I was a kid, and this wasn't in like the 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:28.280 nineteen twenties, we got our milk from a farm right 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.319 here in Atlanta, and it wasn't weird. Like we drove 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:33.079 to this farm and they had you pull up to 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:35.840 the cooler room and there was a guy standing there 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.199 on the porch and he would just ask what you 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:38.520 need and he'd go in the cooler room and go 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.400 get it for you. And it wasn't like I didn't 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:43.599 live in I was in a hill billy And it 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:46.120 wasn't the nineteen twenties. This is like in the eight 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:50.559 seventies and eighties in in Decabb County, Georgia. Yeah, but now, 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.360 I mean that seems really weird. Or get anything outside 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.360 of the grocery, It's not weird. It's more like token. 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.800 It's like a token experience, right. Yeah. And that that's that's, 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:03.880 by the way, is direct marketing aggrotourism, where like you 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:05.920 drive to the farm and like you just pull up 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:07.960 to a farm stand or something that's down the side 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.720 of the road. Um. But yeah, we were talking about 0:11:10.760 --> 0:11:13.520 what's driving agro tourism from the farmer's point of view, 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.160 but you just touched upon what's driving it from the 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.760 consumers point of view. And yeah, this whole farm to 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:22.360 table movement huge. Well yeah, and it's having it's it's 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:26.480 it's the perfect time for aggri tourism because I think 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:30.640 it was, was it two thousand eight or nine? Very recently, um, 0:11:30.920 --> 0:11:34.839 the world population tipped towards cities the first time ever 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:39.040 more people lived in cities than in a rural area. Right, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:42.720 the sticks, the sticks. So we're we're we're getting further 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:46.360 and further away from our country roots. Right. People won't 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.719 walk around barefoot anymore, people wear shirts underneath their overalls. 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:55.839 It's just you know, urban um. So, I guess this 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.559 desire to be able to go back to the farm, 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.559 uh is is definitely part of of why this is 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.679 why consumers are going there right. Well, and Robert makes 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.040 a point which is very valid, which is especially if 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.839 your family, if that was your roots, your ancestry, you 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.439 may not know anything about that, and it might be 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.640 a neat way to get in touch with your your 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.079 ancestry and your roots. Go back. See what it's like 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.319 the milk a cow because great great granddad did that 0:12:22.360 --> 0:12:25.920 for a living. Sure, pretty cool. Yeah, you can feel 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.559 your great great granddad's ghosts looking over your shoulder like 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.360 you're doing it wrong. Right, You got a yank down 0:12:31.760 --> 0:12:34.920 and to the left. I've never a milky cow. I 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.240 don't know how to do it. So you've got supplementary. Uh, 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.240 there's complementary, which is where it's about half and half. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.800 And a good example of this kind of aggri tourism 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.880 outfit is a pumpkin patch, right, so like they may 0:12:46.920 --> 0:12:50.000 sell half of their pumpkins to you know, a wholesaler, 0:12:50.400 --> 0:12:52.719 and then they may keep half of them for the 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:54.880 fall tours. And people can walk around and pick their 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:57.680 own pumpkin and then carve it and have some snotnose 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:01.000 teenager come and smash it, and some awful band will 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.319 name their band after that act. Jerry just left it 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:09.240 and she's like mentioned smashing pumpkin, and so that's complimentary. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:12.840 And then there's primary. And primary is the one where 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:19.160 your farm is growing nothing but weeds, right, nothing you 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:24.400 can sell, and you turn it into an agriturism destination. 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.160 Like you all, almost all of your income is coming 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:30.560 from the fact that there are people coming to your 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:34.079 farm growing stuff. Though well you are you have to 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:38.520 like grow something, but it doesn't necessarily have to be sellable, right, 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:43.160 as long as people think it looks pretty, then you're fine. Sure. 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:46.319 Now there's Back in the director of the U C. 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:52.559 Davis's Small Farms program publicly worried that if ranchers and 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.199 um farmers didn't get in on the Agora tourism action 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.760 soon enough, the market was going to be open wide 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:02.040 enough for like theme park operators to do this, which 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.600 would be the primary enterprise aspect. And there's a guy 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:10.000 who's a former Disney exact who actually started a company 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:12.760 to make mazes that take about two hours to get 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:16.040 to on farms. Yeah, well, that's that's huge. The corn 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:19.320 maze in the fall, that's aggri tourism, buddy. Yeah. Yeah, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:21.160 have you ever done one of those? I haven't. They 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.840 haven't been terrified at the thought of like getting trapped 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:28.440 in there forever? Really? Yeah? Wow? Mazes? Huh. I don't 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.000 like mazes. I bet the end of the shining is 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.040 pretty harrowing for you. Huh No, because I'm not there, 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.000 but yeah, sure, like my I've got like three mirror neurons. 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:39.560 If you're Danny, though, then it would have been frightened. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:41.480 I would have just laid down and died and they 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:46.200 come kill me. Dad think a quit. Uh So. Robert 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.480 likens it to eco tourism, which is um, not too 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:54.400 far off. Whn't you think they both have tourism in 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:56.720 the name. Well, yeah, And the cool thing about um, 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.160 aggro tourism and eco touris are actually more aggroturism is 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:02.880 you don't have to necessarily throw a lot of money 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.000 into it as a farmer, because you've got the farm 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.160 you Sometimes you just got to open the gates and 0:15:09.440 --> 0:15:12.240 advertise it, say, come to our apple farm and pick 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:14.880 some apples. So it's not like you gotta sink a 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:18.080 lot of money into an enterprise. And um, one of 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:19.800 the I think one of the rules of thumb, if 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:24.200 you're a agri tourism farmer and you're actually trying to 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.600 sell some of your stuff too, you want to keep 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:30.120 the littlest kids like occupied away from your protest because 0:15:30.120 --> 0:15:34.480 apparently they represent a huge portion of shrinkage. Yeah, so 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:36.640 I guess petting zoos are the best way to do it. 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.440 It is because if you've ever wanted to watch a 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.760 small child inadvertently kill a rabbit by petting it too eagerly, 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:49.480 then agro tourism is right up your alley. That doesn't happen, 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:55.200 Sure it does. That's awful. Kids and their rough love 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.640 they just don't know. Let's talk about some different types 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:02.000 of agro tourism checkers. Well, you mentioned the direct market, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:04.920 which is like fruit stands, that kind of thing. Um. 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:08.880 Robert calls this one education and experience, and this is 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:12.080 more along the lines of like a bed and bright 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.840 like seren By, you know, Sara By, South Atlanta. I saw, Yeah, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:17.960 it's pretty cool. You know, they have an apprenticeship to 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:22.480 that lasts from March to November. Yeah, I looked it up. 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.040 Pays eight hundred bucks a week plus housing and utilities, 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.720 and they teach you the ins and outs of organic farming, UM, 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:32.200 keeping farm records. Like it's it's pretty well organized. It 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:34.960 sounds like there's actually, while we're on that, there's UM. 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:39.200 If you go onto the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:44.360 site and then search sustainable farming internships and apprenticeships, it 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.640 brings them up for the entire country. Yeah. So if 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.240 you're into this kind of thing, if if you want 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:52.800 to be like an ag culturist rather than an a tourist, 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.480 it's it's out there for you. You know, if I 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.560 was fifteen years younger and single, you would find me 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.560 down at Serenby Living, right, is that right, Yeah, man, 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.240 I'd love that really. Yeah, it's gorgeous down there. So 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:08.280 that's the idea of like the bed and breakfast package 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.560 where they say, hey, stay at our bed and breakfast 0:17:10.640 --> 0:17:12.680 and work a little bit on our farm and learn 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.960 how to turn butter and eat the food that we 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.720 serve you that's straight from the farm from the table. Yeah. 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:23.960 You saw that one Maverick Farm and and uh Carolina, Yeah, yeah, 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.320 I love that. Throw throw that down. It's in Valley Crucis, 0:17:27.520 --> 0:17:31.560 North Carolina, and it's a bed and breakfast. It's situated 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.720 in a hundred and forty year old, hundred and twenty 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.960 five year old farmhouse right. Uh. And it's a hundred 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:41.000 and twenty bucks at night for a room. But you 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:46.280 can work off up to I think bill at seven 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.520 bucks an hour by acting as farm labor. I love 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.240 farm hand. And then you eat with the family in 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:54.720 their home every night, stuff that they grow. Yeah, And 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.199 they said that you can and it's an option if 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.000 you want to donate a little money back for the meal, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.640 you can. Well I'm trying to picture you there. You'd 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:06.440 be like, aw, you're working twenties a good rate. I'll 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.120 just be here on the porch watching you people work. 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:11.879 I'm paying to watch other people work on a farm. Uh. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.280 And then the other type is recreation an event agriturism, 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:20.000 and that's um more like the Big Fall Festival, corn mazes, 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:23.639 pumpkin picking, hay rides, sheep here in contest did they 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:28.840 have those awesome yeah pie eating contest. Yeah. Basically, if 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.399 there's an event that you're attending and um, say a 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.920 pageant and it's miss and then insert your own vegetable, 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:41.760 that's the miss uh squash of Canton or whatever. That 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:45.040 kind of thing. Another one that was pretty cool that 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:47.280 um he mentions in here is the U. S Department 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:51.720 of Agriculture operates one called home Place by the Lakes 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.879 National Recreationary in Tennessee. And they go a step further 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.720 and combine a little like Colonial Williamsburg in with it. 0:19:00.640 --> 0:19:04.200 They'll dress up instead of a Civil War reenactment, they'll 0:19:04.240 --> 0:19:06.200 be dressed up in the old school clothes showing you 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.000 how to churn butter. Imagine like the AMAS should probably 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:12.199 be like, dude, that's our life. Have you come watch us? 0:19:12.560 --> 0:19:17.919 You read exactly? Um, it's like the opposite of rum Springer. Yeah, Um, 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.960 that's what we just figured out the key to a tourism. 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:27.479 It's the opposite of rum Springer. Have have you ever 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:31.159 seen the alig episode Um where Barat goes to like 0:19:31.320 --> 0:19:36.880 a living history farm in South Carolina. I strongly recommend 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:41.680 that one. It's hilarious. Uh. There's another one called the 0:19:41.800 --> 0:19:44.720 Conner Prairie Living History Museum, which is sort of what 0:19:44.800 --> 0:19:47.360 you're talking about right there. This one's pretty serious. Yeah. 0:19:47.440 --> 0:19:51.200 This is in Fisher's, Indiana, and there's an outdoor museum 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.280 and you can see how things operated in the eighteen hundreds. 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:56.879 And then they go a little step further and they 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:59.520 actually have a program called Follow the North Star which 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.840 allow as you the chance to see what it was 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:07.280 like to be a slave trying to escape. Yeah, which 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.159 I wonder how they do that. I think they have 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.119 guys and dogs running after you. Really, yeah, tracking you. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.080 That's what I took from it. Yeah, that's that's tricky. 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.720 I mean, that's living history right there. I don't know 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:22.399 if I want to do that. Can you see yourself 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:27.840 running through the woods like hete agritourism. This is horrible, So, Josh. 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:31.840 One of the ideas behind agriturism is that people will 0:20:31.880 --> 0:20:35.920 be so uh, inspired by their trip, that it will 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.840 form sort of a relationship with the farm and that 0:20:39.960 --> 0:20:42.280 they will want to support that farm even after they 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:45.000 have left the farm. This appears to be like a 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.360 long term goal of agritourism. It's not just short term. 0:20:48.880 --> 0:20:52.400 It's more like they want to remind the city slickers 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:54.879 that farms still exist and that the city slickers are 0:20:54.920 --> 0:20:58.080 welcome to come by and empty their wallets there, like 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.840 keep coming back again and again. And actually that works 0:21:02.359 --> 0:21:07.800 because I was raised as an agritourist um going to 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:12.440 McQueen orchard in Holland, Ohio pick apples, and still to 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.280 this day, like my family when we visit Ohio, we'll 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:18.080 go to McQueen's. We scheduled it around the time where 0:21:18.119 --> 0:21:22.040 the apples are ripe, amazing, best donuts in the entire world. 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:24.879 Like I kid you not, Yes, everything is just perfect. 0:21:24.920 --> 0:21:27.359 They're just go go to McQueen apple fritters to be 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.840 apple fritters, apples there, apple cider is just I mean, 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.280 and the apples themselves. You just climb the trees and 0:21:34.400 --> 0:21:36.720 pick them and eat them and you know, take off 0:21:36.760 --> 0:21:40.879 your shirt and it's awesome. Uh So, where I was 0:21:40.920 --> 0:21:43.480 going though with the with the repeat businesses. Um, you've 0:21:43.480 --> 0:21:45.600 heard of the the c s A, the community supported 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.719 agriculture programs. Yeah, and that's when you sign up as 0:21:49.760 --> 0:21:52.800 a collective. While you sign up personally, you form a 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:56.720 collective as a whole. And um, you basically pay money 0:21:56.840 --> 0:22:00.480 up front to get a box of vegetables like once 0:22:00.520 --> 0:22:02.480 a month. I mean, the programs are different delivered to 0:22:02.520 --> 0:22:04.680 your home or sometimes you go pick them up. And 0:22:04.880 --> 0:22:07.160 the cool thing is, and you should know this because 0:22:07.200 --> 0:22:08.800 some people might not think it's so cool, is you 0:22:08.800 --> 0:22:11.239 don't know what you're gonna get. Yeah, but you get 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.000 a lot of what you don't know what you're gonna get. Well, yeah, 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:15.840 so you gotta be open minded. You gotta be willing 0:22:15.920 --> 0:22:18.560 to experiment with vegetables you may never have cooked with before. 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:21.080 It's probably a good idea to know how to can 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.040 things because you really get a lot of stuff. This 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:27.080 is one of the things I've always heard from people 0:22:27.160 --> 0:22:31.960 who have co op subscriptions that like all this scale, 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.840 all this scale. Tennessee Tech has a program. They say 0:22:36.880 --> 0:22:38.840 that they're the first university in the state of Tennessee 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:43.000 to offer a degree in agriturism because they say this 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:45.040 is the future, and you're gonna need managers and people 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:47.480 that know the trends in this business. I think this 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:50.320