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Plan to start a green business, home business, or is your current growing businesses a bed and breakfast, country inn, or rustic hotel?  You can cash in on the expanding eco-travel and giant local food movement by adding a straightforward boutique mini farm company to your present green small business or small business plan, even on less than an acre.  

home entrepreneurs of hostels and bed and breakfasts, as well as innkeepers, can dramatically increase their business profits, word-of-mouth promoting, and attract substantially higher numbers of bed-and-breakfast, country hotel or rural hotel guests by surrounding their rural or small city accommodation business with a synergizing second revenue 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 cash for the farm owner.  Most green B and B, country inn or agricultural hotel treatments involve green energy additions and reduced indoor poisons, and these are worthy.  But the following cool green trend developing is local green food production, along with a renaissance of exquisite lost heirloom, gourmet, and artisan foodie delights that are simply grown, but not offered by typical food production. Bed and breakfast half moon bay

Below we’ll explain how to do it simply and successfully.

But first, here are the numerous benefits:

1.  You may add a massive customer draw to your B and B, country inn or rural hotel.  Owners of hotels even in more urban settings can create their own exclusive chef gardens which are becoming hot for 5-star restaurants.  For rustic hotels, bed and breakfasts, and country hotels, the attraction of farmstays has grown dramatically.  Purdue University reports that visits to real farms are the quickest growing segment of tourism in the country.  People like to see roaming hens that produced the eggs for their breakfast, pet some 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 guests.  Farm grown and made strawberry jam, world-cuisine salsas, hand-woven Shetland sheep ( rare miniature sheep that produce luxurious wool ) shawls, herbal candles, hand-crafted goat-milk soap.  Even a tiny town bed and breakfast with an herb garden can make sachets.  These items can be sold all year online too.  Guests like to take home something discernible from their stay, and love to be reminded of their stay by continuing to purchase 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 real 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.  

4.  You can generate even more sources of money while at the same time getting more word-of-mouth marketing with agritourism activities that you offer for an extra fee.  Offer them not only to B&B, country inn or rustic hotel guests, but also to day visitors, or both, allowing yourself to generate income from much more than just overnight clients.  As an example, supply a regular cooking class using the farm’s ingredients that both overnite or day guests can pay to attend, a gardening workshop in spring where you may also sell garden starts to the local community, or give tours of the farm to school youngsters 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 additional $500 for the day, but youngsters and adult chaperones will begin generating valuable recommendation by friends selling about your bed-and-breakfast, country inn or rustic hotel.  

5.  You can cut costs on flowers and food.  The flowers and food items you grow yourself will look and taste outstanding, have the consumer appeal of being locally grown, and cut your debts.  Further, you can grow those exotic African jelly melons or tiny Mexican cucumbers that no other bed and breakfast, country inn or agricultural hotel offers.  

6.  You can stay before other farmers because of your B and B, country hotel or rustic hotel.  The gigantic 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 rustic hotel and its retail shop and agritourism activities, you’ve got your own self-made market.