MARKETING — VALUE-ADDED — AGRITOURISM: If you’re already involved in backyard or small scale farming, be sure not to take your veggie gardens, flower fields or farm animals for granted. Rural and nature scenes are often highly desirable products. If you have good photos of your micro farming scenes, you can turn them into art prints or “oil paintings” to hang on the walls of your farm store or farmers’ market, to have on display during agritourism events, or print small versions in your farm newsletters. Images of your small scale farming operation go a long way to brand your farm, attract customers and instill a faithful following amidst current customers. Sites such as PhotoFiddle (one of our affiliates which we really love — but there are others, so shop around) can turn your digital photos into art prints or even what look like oil paintings on stretched canvas. You can even offer to sell copies of your displayed farm art by creating a price that gives you a profit (Example, Photofiddle charges $15 for an 8×10 art print, you charge $23. Photofiddle charges $35 for an unframed canvas painting, you charge $45), and only order a new copy when a customer prepays for one. Be sure to put a copyright notice on each piece of art sold. — www.MicroEcoFarming.com