Is Your Town Farm Friendly? A Checklist
Towns who encourage agricultural activity retain the benefits inherent in local farms of open space, food security, energy independence, and healthy communities. Citizens and town decision makers need...
View ArticleTraining the Trainer: FAQs in Agritourism
Do you feel comfortable handling questions farmers pose about the many details of agritourism? Do you have a file cabinet of applicable hand outs and reliable resources to draw upon? If so, then you’re...
View ArticleFarmer Agritourism Resources: Write Your Business Plan
Clarify the values, goals, challenges, and strategies of your new agritourism enterprise by working through a business plan. Business plans are not just used to secure financial support. They are for...
View ArticleFarmer Agritourism Resources: Evaluate Your Unique Assets
To help determine the kind of agritourism venture that would fit well with you, your family, and your farmland, evaluate the features & unique assets of your farm. Consider the following: Roadways...
View ArticleFarmer Agritourism Resources: Risk Management Plan
As an owner operator of an agritourism enterprise you are legally responsible for the well-being of customers and employees. Create a risk management plan to minimize exposure to the main areas of risk...
View ArticleFarmer Agritourism Resources: Selecting an Agritourism Venture
These NJAES fact sheets may help determine if you want to proceed down the path to agritourism: Qualifying and Quantifying Your Personal Agritourism Potential Is an Agritourism Venture Right for Your...
View ArticleAgritourism in New Jersey
Ag census data shows our state ranks first nationally in the percentage of farm revenue earned from agritourism. When you think about the agricultural challenges in NJ, such as market competition,...
View ArticleFarm Calls: Vineyards, Helicopters, Frost Protection …and Right-to-Farm
This week brings a call from a wine grape grower asking if the use of helicopters is among the accepted standard operating procedures in fruit growing regions during Inversion Layer Freezes. There are...
View ArticleEffective Political Communications
It is important that farmers be involved in policy decisions at the local, state, and federal level because quite often those charged with making policy do not farm and may not realize the impact their...
View ArticleLegislating the Lust for “Local”
New rules are being proposed regarding farm products sold in NJ designated as “local.” Learn how the proposed rules will affect you and send your comments regarding N.J.A.C. 2:71-10 before July 3, 2015...
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