Agri-Tourism
Kathleen Walls
When
most people think Louisiana plantations, cotton is what comes
to mind. However another crop, sugar cane, was a staple. West
Baton Rouge Museum tells the story of Louisiana's sugar cane
industry. A trip through the museum and its many historical
buildings that make up its campus is a tour through time. It
gives a glimpse of life back through the years for 300 years
from the Antebellum though the struggle for Civil Rights.
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Tom Straka
There are many
interesting historical and natural attraction
located just a few miles off the interstate; one
is a fantastic botanical garden just ten miles
from the exit on Interstate 85, halfway between
Atlanta and Charlotte. It is Clemson
University’s South Carolina Botanical Garden,
which is much more than the standard botanical
garden. All the traditional plant-focused things
are there, but a lot more, like a special
natural heritage trail that allows the visitor
to transect the natural plant habitats of the
state in just a half-mile.
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Kathleen Walls
If an apple a day really keeps the doctor
away, R and A Orchards in Gilmer County, Georgia can keep you
in perfect health. In this era of not knowing where our food
comes from, it's a pleasure to visit a real family run orchard
and produce store. Not just for the apples. They also grow
peaches, corn, cabbage, green beans, strawberries,
blackberries, tomatoes, and lots of other produce on about 146
acres.
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by Kathleen Walls
National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, a
small town near the southern border, is a modern day
Garden of Eden. It is a favorite spot not only for
butterflies but birds and other wildlife species. This
100-acre preserve is the largest native plant botanical
garden in the country. Read
more.
by Kathleen Walls
Becker Farms in Gasport, New York,
just a short drive from Niagara Falls is the kind of place
every community needs. Imagine farm fresh and U-pick produce
coupled with locally produced beer and wine. Add to that
rental cabin for a romantic weekend and all kinds of events
and you have a perfect agri tourism spot.
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by Kathleen Walls
In Great Valley, New York,
Pumpkinville marks the fall season. Every September, fall
fun lovers of all ages await the opening of Pumpkinville
on the third Saturday of September. It runs through
Halloween. The attraction, a cross between a roadside
pumpkin seller and a festival, began in 1968 when Joseph
and Helen Holloran started selling pumpkins at their
roadside stand. Dan and Diane
Pawlowski, who took over 23 years ago, open the event
for its fiftieth year this season. Each year there is
something new.
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by Kathleen Walls
Real farms are rare treasures. Those pleasant homes with
a family living in the midst of real farm animals, crops
they planted themselves with cats and dogs to share the
space have mostly been replaced with huge corporate
offices where someone orders the planting done by huge
machines manned by workers who
are
bused to the site then returned to the city after the
day's work is done. The office workers only know the
animals they are raising by the number and type. That's
why it's such a treat to visit a real farm.
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