As an FYI, many farms are finding they need to diversity or somehow change what they offer. I live in a semi rural small town with over 20 family owned farms of some type. All have needed to change over the years. Even the old “farmstands” are now much more elaborate, with much more extensive offerings (in addition to veggies and fruit, mine has pies, pasta, breads, cheeses, ice cream). They want to be one stop shopping for their customers.
Some of our farms have created things like wedding venues in their barns…because they no longer use the barn.
All of our vineyard have a gift shop, and small venue area in addition to the tasting room.
Even our orchards offer more than just the fruit…pies, snack bars, or something.
A corn farmer I knew in Wisconsin made a good amount of money with a corn maze.
My point is…that modernization of the previous camp might be part of the wave of the future for our farmers to survive…and it’s not all a bad thing.
CSA are very popular around here…great way for farmers to market their products to just us regular folks. For a yearly fee. The CSA we buy every year has over 400 members…at $350 a half share. $600 for a full share. You can see…that income adds up!
I think it is fabulous that a young person wants to be a farmer. It’s a hard field (no pun intended) in which to work…but we do need innovated and smart future farmers.