Hartsel Springs Ranch & Guest Lodge located in Hartsel, Colorado.
Agritourism across the U.S. revolves around a growing range of agricultural activities beyond
the corn maze, the hayride and picking your own berries, to helping plant organic potatoes,
feeding buffalo (shown here at Hartsel), even birthing lambs at Burns Ranch in Montana.
The burgeoning slow-food, eat-local movement — a "locavore," or someone who prefers to eat locally grown food, was the New American Oxford Dictionary's 2007 word of the year — are fueling appetites for other adventures down on the farm, including alfresco meals prepared by visiting celebrity cooks. With the economics of small farming and ranching deteriorating for the past half century, agritourism is welcome sustenance to these important family businesses.
www.hartselspringsranch.com