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Farm Stay Planet is a hand-picked collection of some of the best farm stay providers worldwide, from basic farmhouse accommodation to luxury farm hotels on everything from vineyards and horse ranches to alpaca farms and chill pepper plantations.
The farm stay concept isn’t ours, of course, agritourism has been around for decades and is these days one of tourism’s fastest growing sectors.
Some regions are already well ahead, though; in Europe, Austria and Italy particularly, the industry is already very well established, and there is government support for farms in terms of tax incentives and grants.
Its popularity is not hard to understand, where once most of our ancestors worked on the land, most of us now live and work in cities.
In 1900, around 40% of the workforce in the United States for example, was employed in agriculture. One hundred years later, that figure was just under 2%.
So farming is part of almost every family’s heritage, and, as our societies have become more industrialized and sanitized, the call of the land is not just a nostalgia thing; it is also a promise of mental and physical health and wellbeing that our suddenly urbanized, modernized brains subconsciously yearn for.
The trimmings of the industry are already popular with many urbanites; farmers’ markets, urban vegetable plots, organic food, locally sourced food/less carbon footprints all over your dinner, etc., are now high profile…
