Try A Different New York Experience

Try A Different New York Experience

While agro-tourism involves a fair amount of work and walking about, agriculture tourism as a whole branch does offer quite a lot of variation, so if you don’t like to work your days away over a vegetable garden there still might be a lot to like in agro-tourism.

The modern agro-tourism experience offered in New York’s Hudson Valley is more of an educational one than a traditional working vacation. You can check out petting zoos, scarecrows, choose your own pumpkins and other locally grown vegetables as well as indulge in horse and pony riding.

Stone Barns, a working farm in the New York area perfectly embodies this new approach to tourism. This free range farm is focused on educating visitors on sustainable farming and living. You can see and learn about free range turkeys and birds, flowers as far as the eyes could see, aromatic herbs, greenhouses that produce amazing produce all year round and other larger animals like pigs or cows. The impressive apiary and an endless stream of charming wooden paths also make for an unforgettable landscape. The farm’s entire yearly vegetable production is obtained without any pesticides or fertilizers, with only traditional compost and harvesting methods being used.

The farm was built in the 1930s by businessman John D. Rockefeller and is located just an hour’s drive away from New York City.

Posted by Sophia Andrews on Sunday September 14 2014, 3:28 AM EDT. Ref: Fox News. Link. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News, Travel. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0