Thursday, June 17, 2010

Agritourism

Strawberry Hill USA is proud to be involved in the new promotion of tourism of Spartanburg County. Today, our business had the opportunity to establish ourselves at the county meeting. We gave out fresh, homemade ice-cream, and also offered samples of peaches and blackberries. People seemed to really take to our table display and wanted to try all we had to offer. The main reason we were there was to show how our business helps contribute to tourism traffic in Spartanburg County. They recogonized our business for promoting Agritourism by helping bring people to Spartanburg for fresh fruits and vegetables.
During strawberry season, we let 1st grade classes around the county and surrounding counties take a tour of our 90 acres of stawberries, have a nature walk, educational session in the field, and even picnic. It's a great experience for the kids. Then, when peaches are over and we start selling pumpkins and harvesting decorations, we have pumpkins tours, that we do for families on the weekends. We take them on a tractor ride also and let them feed baby cows and chase piglets. The kids get to pick their own pumpkin and run in a hay trail. This tour is not educational, but intended for families to have an opportunity to spend time with one another and have a day on the farm. I think Strawberry Hill does a great job promoting agritourism in our county.

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