ON-FARM RESTAURANT | PADDOCK TO PLATE PRODUCE | FARM TOURS Kathy Smits begins her day milking goats and harvesting veggies from the garden - she’s living out her dream, retiring from nursing to build and run a restaurant on the family farm, serving delicious meals made...
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GLAMPING | WILDERNESS IMMERSION Steve and Heidi Ross often wonder what path they’d have taken had they not been selected for the agritourism business development program. At the start of the course, they’d barely begun considering options for building budget cabin accommodation and permaculture gardens to...
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Surrounded by tons of ripe macadamias and a new nutcracker, Paul and Robyn Lee initially applied to be part of the Scenic Rim’s business development program to explore ways to market their produce. Disheartened with the low returns when selling their nuts to a processor,...
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As dairy farmers, Scenic Rim’s Tommerup family have faced their fair share of challenges, but since throwing open their farm gate to welcome curious city visitors, their business has experienced a fresh surge of energy and success. Several times a year, hundreds flock to Tommerup’s Farm...
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