Indiana Lieutenant Governor Suzanne Crouch is highlighting how agritourism in the state can help people understand where their food comes from.
She recalls participating in agritourism activities as a child.
“We would pick strawberries at strawberry patches and cut down our own Christmas trees and it’s those same experiences that people were participating in without even realizing it was agritourism because agriculture is huge here in Indiana,” she says. “We’re the tenth largest farming state, agriculture contributes $31 billion to our state’s economy, and agritourism is attracting people, whether they’re Hoosiers or outside the state, to come and enjoy everything that agriculture has to offer.”
The state secretary of agriculture and rural development describes agritourism as the marriage between agriculture and tourism.
