Attractive Amenities

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• Air strip
• Bed and breakfast
• Wedding receptions
• Birthday pavilion
• Camping

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• Wagon trains
• Hay wagon ranch tours
• Recreate early history and culture; use local museum
• Classroom on wheels
• Pony rides ring
• Guided horseback rides
• Swamp buggy tours
• High School ecological tourism program
• Identify plant histories and develop stories
• Air boat rides
• Indian mounds and fossils

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• Dirt bike courses and races
• Bicycle rentals and trails
• Bird watching tours
• Unique bird species tour (owl walks)
• Horse trails for clubs
• Riding club

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• Hunting lease
• Fee hunting operations
• Turkey hunts -- "Osceola Gobbler"
• Fox hunting courses
• Quail hunt and feed area

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• Cattle
• Timber
• Sod
• Seed
• Citrus

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• Water (Zephyrhills)
• Palmetto berries
• Other natural herbs
• Blueberries
• Aquaculture
• Catfish
• Contract with restaurants
• U-Pick giveaway (I.E. bag of grapefruit)
• Marmalade and salsa
• Goat cheese

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• Mitigation banking
• NRCS programs (WRP, CRP, CREP, EQIP, WHIP, FLP)
• Less-than-fee options
• Resource conservation agreements
• Grazing leases on public land
• Interpretive tours on state lands
• Film companies and commercials
• Money for research on private lands

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• Get out ranch contributions
• Contact environmental reporters
• Media agriculture tour (NAMA tour Feb 24-25)
• Target German, Japanese and European tourists
• Package tours -- partner with others
• Use "layering" (do more things)
• Control media exposure
• Involve self in community
• Promote people who work there

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• Weather related issues (need to have a safety plan)
• Permitting delays
• Money
• Top three complaints: bugs, snakes and cost

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• Property demographics
• Historical products/ old implements
• Water testing (for visitors)
• Cost share practices and standards
• Uniqueness of your land
• Explore "gray areas"
• Number of family members to do it
• Initial investment

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• Make a plan
• Find out about zoning and change it
• Weighing costs -- time, investment
• Investigate net profit
• Handle human resource pay area
• Take action today
• Build and sell your vision
• Small steps are OK
• Start small and it will become big
• Web-site for agritourism

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• Florida Center For Environmental Studies --see Pat!
• Nature Conservancy
• Water Management Districts
• United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
• Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
• Work available on other lands
• Audubon Society
• Government partners
• Universities
• National Agricultural Marketing Association (NAMA)