FARM TOURISM OF LANGHE AND ROERO
FARM TOURISM
The accepted meaning of farm tourism is a simple stay by way of a holiday at a farm, in contact with all that goes on therein and the life of the farmer's family. What is offered embraces hospitality in the farmhouse, with or without the provision of meals, a place to park one's caravan or pitch one's tent in the fields and the purchase of farm produce. It goes without saying that one must be interested in the agricultural life. Farm tourism began to get under way in Piedmont at the beginnig of the Eighties. Farmers have been encouraged to take on this additional activity by their local organisations, whose associations have set up a substantial network of concerns throughout the Region. Alongside the life of the farmer, those who opt for farm tourism have the choice of freely taking all the opportunities offered by actually being on a farm.



There will be those who prefer long hours of repose in the silence of the countryside. Others will set out on wine-oriented tours among the local producers or to the public organisations. Others again will hire a horse and ride for hours along bridle-paths and cart-tracks, or rediscover the homely bicycle. Nor will there be lacking those to whom pleasure can be brought by simply remaining on the farm and learning the secrets of how its produce is teased from the soil. In a word, farm tourism provides an encounter with a world that has become something unknown and novel to most visitors, who usually hail from the great towns and cities and are keen to know or get their children to know what is often emphatically described in their school textbooks or by the mass media. Lovers of the Piedmontese cuisine and real "farmer's wine" on sale in demijohns on the farms themselves or at grower's communal cellars, have always flockerd to the Region from the three major industrial cities of the north of Italy: Milan, Turin and Genoa. Farm tourism represents a futher development of this enthusiasm, since it results in time spent with the creator of the product. Instead of the quick, almost furtive expedition to the countryside, the connoisseur is now offered the chance of acquaintance with its problems and those of its inhabitants. And then there is the produce itself, pure, untreated and unadulterated. Not only available for direct sale (wine, fruit, cheeses, vegetables, meat and salami), but also served to those who take their meals on the farm, as required by the rules governing this form of arrangement.

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