Off-farm Income

Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter! Email address: SHOW NOTES KEY IDEAS:  A lot of farms rely on agritourism as a means of producing income or marketing their products and services.  When social distancing measures were put in place due to the Coronavirus these practices went by the wayside.  Fortunately, there is an alternative.  And even as restrictions ease up across the nation, the ability to have people visit your farm virtually can be of great benefit. Long before the Coronavirus, back in 2018, a group of people in the dairy industry in the Northeast noticed that it was logistically impossible to have students from cities like New York visit farms due to sheer numbers of students and the difficulty in getting buses full of kids out of the city, through all of the traffic. It was at that point that they started developing and practicing virtual farm tours so students in large cities could still learn about agriculture.  This has grown over time into a practice that is used for both educ