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Here’s an alphabetical list of 350 Alternative Farm-Based Enterprises to consider, originally posted by Johanneke s

Adopt-a-tree, Advertising, Aggregates, Afternoon teas, After school clubs, Agricultural Chaplain, Alpaca, Alternative medicine, Amenity management, American-style mailboxes, Angora rabbits, Animal rehabilitation, Animal Associated Therapy, Arboretum, Aromatherapy products, Arts classes, (Field) Archery, Assertiveness training, Aquaponics.

Bacon, Badger watching, Bagpipe making, Balloon service, Barn Conversion, Barn Dancing, Ballooning, Basket making, Bay tree production, Beautician, Bed and Breakfast, Beef packs, Bees, Bee-keeping workshops, Bellringing weekends, Bereavement support, Biofuels, Birds of prey centre, Birdseed, Bird watching, Birthday cards, Bloodhound pack (DIY), Book binding, Book publishing, Bottled water, Brassieres, Bread-making, Brewery, Burial-human, Burial-pets, Buffalo, Business Units.

Cake decoration, Calligraphy, Camping, Canoeing, Caravans, Caravan storage, Car boot sales, Carving wood/ stone, Car service and repair, Car valeting, Cashmere Goats, Catering, Cattery, Chalets, Charcoal making, Chauffeured vintage cars, Cheese, Children’s farm B&B, Children’s parties, Children’s play equipment, Christmas trees, Cider making, Clay Pigeon shooting, Clock-making, Clog-making, Selling clothes, Composting, Concerts, Conference and Training Centre, Computer help, Conference venue, Contracting, Co-ordinating of sixth sense, Coppice, Corporate hospitality, Correspondence courses, Cottage Lets, Counselling, Crafts, Craft directory, Crayfish Farming, Crematorium, Cricket (indoor), Croquet, Cross Country Course (Horses), Curtain making, Cyber pub, Cyclo-cross, (Cycles touring), Dairy goats.

Dairy sheep, Dating Agency, Deer, Dentist, Desk-top publishing, Disco venue, Dog & Cat minding, Dog breeding, Dog grooming, Dog’s Hotel, Dog-sledding, Dog training, Dog walking, Domestic agency, Dried flower production, Ducks.

Ecoflow magnets, Egg round, Elderberry wine, (elderberries grown on contract), Equestrian Centre, Essential oils, Etiquette courses, Evening out and tour arranging.

Family history investigation, Farm business consultancy, Farmers markets, Farm shop, Farm security, Farm trails, Feed manufacture, Fancy fish breeding, Field Boarding; Fine art adviser, Fish farming, Fishing lakes, Fish smokery, Florist, Flower arranging courses, Flowers for drying, Making flyscreens, Football, Footwear for farmers, Forestry, Form filling service, Four wheel drive, Free range eggs, Frozen food distribution, Fudge making, Furniture restoration.

Game shooting, Garden Centre, Garden design, Gardening, Geese, Geo-positioning app trails, Gift wrapping services, Gilding, Glamping, Gliding, Goats, Golf course, Golf range, Go-carting, Golf Course, Golf driving range, Golf management, Grain drying, Granny activity holidays, Grass boarding, Grass mowing, Grass track racing (motor cycles), Grave digging, Guanacos, Guinea Fowl.

Hairdressing, Hang-gliding, Hanging basket maintenance, Hat-selling and hire, Haulage, Health Products, Health farm, Help groups directory, Herbs, Historic trails, Hockey, Holiday chalets, Holidays for diabetics, Home entertainer, Horse B&B, Horse Drawn Carriages for weddings, Horse hospital, Horse jumps, House sitting, House exchange agency, Humanist funerals, Hurdle making, Hydroponics.

Ice cream, Import/export, Industrial Unit, Interior design consultancy, Ironing, IT training.

Jet-skiing, Jewellery design, Junk shop.

Kennels, Lambing-time visits, Landscape Gardening, Lavender farm, Leaves to curds (tofu) and milks, Lecturing, Life swap for a week, Line dancing classes, Lingerie, Listening devices, Livery, Llamas, Llama trekking, Locations for film and TV.

Magazine production, Mail order, Management games, Manicuring, Marriage guidance, Massage, Maternity wear hire, Meat boxes by post, Mechanics workshop, Mediaeval Banquets, Meditation weekends, Mentoring, Millinery, Mobile cyber-cafe, Mobile phone aerials, Mobile second hand books, Mobile post office/bank, Model Aircraft, Moonlight walks, Mountain biking, Museum, Mushroom farming, Mushroom picking, Music weekends, Mystic weekends.

Newspaper delivery, Nursery School,

Off-roading, Open gardens, Organic farming, Fresh organic baby food, Opera house, Orienteering, Ostriches,

Paintballing, Painting Holidays, Paper storage, Parachuting, Para-gliding, Parrot breeding, Pet B&B, Pet Cemetry, Pet headstones, Pet sculptures, Pharmaceutical crops, Pheasant rearing, Photographic Agency, Piano lessons, Pick-your-own, Picnic sites, Plant Hire, Polo, Polo pony wintering, Pony Trekking, Pop-concerts, Posh frock hire, Pottery, Proof reading, Property, Public relations, Pudding service.

Quad biking, Quail, Quarrying.

Rabbits, Racehorse training, Ready meals, Recruitment agency, Red kite feeding centre, Respite care home, Restaurant, Retreats, Riding School, Riding Stables, Radio Station, Road haulage, Rock concerts, Rowing, Rug making.

Salmon farming, Sandwich van, Saunas, Second hand clothes, Self catering accommodation, Secretarial services, Sheep dairying, Shellfish, Shooting Range, Shooting (game), Sign manufacturing, Singles parties, Skate-boarding, Smokery, Snail Farming, Soap making, Soft furnishings, Specialist plants on the internet, Stag and hen weekends, Stained glass, Stand-up comedy, Stone carving.

Table trout production, Tandem racing, Tapestry kits, Taxidermy, Tea-shop, Teenage activity holidays, Telephone answering service, Ten-pin bowling, Terracotta pots, Terry nappies, Touring caravans, Toys, Toy library, Tractor manufacture and rebuilding, Translation, Treasure hunting (metal detectors), Tree nursery, Turf.

Video conferencing, Voluntary work,

Walking tours, Walling, Rural waste advisory service, Water bottling, Water-skiing, Water Buffalo, Weaving, Web-site design, Wedding service, Wedding venue, Growing weed seeds, Wholesale flower market, Wild boar, Wild flower seeds, Willow growing, Wind farm, Wine, Woodland and Hedgerow Products, Woodland walks, Worm farming, Writing courses,

Xmas trees,

Yoghurt Making

Zoic research, Zither making, Zephyr manufacture, Zen meditation, Zucchini farming.

Plenty of opportunities!

Comment
“Thank you for posting this list Johanneke s. I am sure it will promote many farmers to think about their farm growth potential. Your list has been downloaded many times and it was the catalyst for our Rural Growth Wales project which has already promoted the growth of:

local town tourism,
a community land trust,
a worm farm,
pony trekking holidays,
bike trecks,
walking weekends,
a new orchard,
book publishing,
community events,
artist collectives,
a snail farm,
a retreat and meditation centre.
poetry events https://twitter.com/PoetryEvent
Cohousing Group
Hydroponic / Aquaponic Research Unit (Volunteers should apply via HelpX )

Dan says:
This is all brilliant and interesting advice.

Posted by Grant.

and the way we increase interest in the countryside whilst maintaining it as a home for Nature, diversify, dragon, farm, growth, ideas, museum, rural, sheep, tourism

Buckland’s lost museum Economic fish culture 0071

Frank Buckland’s ‘Museum of Economic Fish Culture’ suffered great damage during the first World War and much of what was left after the war was destroyed by the ‘Board of Survey’.

Loaned exhibits, which remained intact, went back to their owners and the rest went on permanent loan to the Scottish Fisheries Museum.

I mention Frank here because he is a good example of high human ‘effort’ and one that I like. Like Darwin and Da Vinci, Frank Buckland followed his insight at a time when others were following the tracks of an established trail. UK readers might imagine him as a Victorian version of David Attenborough who published his version of The Blue Planet 1, 2 and more, on paper – writings full of enthusiasm and energy to make his understandings sparkle in the minds of his fellow beings.

Through history, many individuals keep going against the odds and many die in relative obscurity having spirited what might seem to be only a small and close group of immediate friends. But there is nothing that leads me to believe that the more widespread a thought, the better it is.

Frank Buckland turned thought to print and published “Land and Water”. This enabled him to share globally. When digitized, these thoughts will be shared with countless millions of people – safe from paper mites but never from post editors.

Today, with the ease of publishing ‘keyboard to cloud, texts spread almost instantly but fade far faster whilst going further afield. Tomorrow, maybe neural upload, cloud to brain?

It is amazing to think of the effort that some people put into life and Frank Buckland was one of those fun humans that was keen on doing so many things. He was a visionary because he flexed his curiosity as you would a muscle. He would eat new foods, seek out new people, open minds, think that extra light year and might have made a good captain of the ‘Starship Enterprise’.

This ‘openess’ of spirit plays a vital role in the way society develops and those with closed minds can severely damage their own health and more importantly, the health of all other lifeforms.

My research on Frank Buckland led to an exhibition opened by the Lord Mayor in Birmingham Central Library. Exhibits in the exhibition from the first Museum of Economic Fish Culture were returned to Arlington Mill Museum, World of Water Museum and Bibury Trout Farm but here’s a collection of images from that exhibition: