Agritourism Destinations: The Best Farm-Oriented Vacations

From Mother Nature Network's Josh Lew:

Agritourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the eco-tourism industry. There is nothing new about this form of travel, which involves staying on a farm or other agriculture-oriented property and perhaps even sampling the day-to-day lifestyle of the people who tend the crops or livestock there. Tourists have been staying at Italian vineyards and Rocky Mountain ranches for decades. The idea of relaxing in a beautiful setting (like the Tuscan farmhouse shown here) or sampling the adventurous Old West lifestyle is certainly still part of the attraction of agritourism. On some farms that welcome tourists, however, the goal is less about providing a unique vacation and more about fostering a deeper understanding of the farming process through education and hands-on experience.

Want to see what the agritourism buzz is all about? Try one of these amazing destinations on your next vacation.

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• Taiwan

  Lush, rugged Taiwan has numerous ?<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/scene/2011/11/18/country-living-with-frills-now-drawing-tourists/">leisure farms</a>? that offer tours of farm fields and facilities and, of course, plenty of chances to sample the crops. A couple of things make Taiwan an ideal spot for an in-depth agritourism vacation. Many smaller farms offer <a href="http://www.go2taiwan.net/monthly_selection.php?sqno=22">home-stay </a>accommodations, as opposed to hotel-like rooms. In addition, the food served and sold is grown locally, so green-minded travelers can easily support sustainable agriculture and lower their carbon footprint while traveling. Tea-lovers can embark on a specialized agricultural tour by focusing on the island's <a href="http://www.hualien-taiwanhotels.com/attractions/Wuhe_Tourist_Tea_Plantation.htm">tea plantations</a>, where some of the world's most prized leaves are cultivated.

• Tuscany

  Tuscany was one of the first regions to become a popular farm-tourism destination, thanks to its atmospheric agriturismos. These farmhouses, which were converted into inns, gained notoriety because they offered an authentic and quaint Italian countryside experience to people who would otherwise have to see this region as part of a tour group. A few of the estates in Tuscany offer a more educational focus, but, for the most part, the attraction of staying in a farmhouse in this region has to do with the opportunity to simply hang around the property, relax and soak in the unparalleled atmosphere. Of course, part of agritourism is tasting local fare, and Tuscany (Italy as a whole, actually) is the perfect place for this because such a premium is placed on fresh, local food. Whether you want a wine-soaked stay in the Chianti area or a farmhouse with a restaurant that makes magic with local tomatoes, herbs and cheeses, Tuscany will prove to be one of Europe best agritourism destinations.

• Mallorca

  On the popular Spanish island of Mallorca, farmhouse inns focus more on providing isolation and quietness than offering hands-on farming experiences. With millions of visitors descending on the beaches of Mallorca and the other Balearic Islands each summer, a little bit of isolation is a good thing for solitude-seeking travelers. Mainly located in the hills of inland Mallorca, these inns range from rustic century-old farmhouses to luxury bed-and-breakfasts with spas and swimming pools. Some of Mallorca's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/may/11/balearicislands.spain">best agriturismos</a> sit in the middle of orange or fig groves and offer fresh, local food to guests, often serving dishes made from ingredients grown on-site.

• Brazil

  Brazil is a vast country with plenty of natural resources and a vibrant, diverse agricultural industry. From tropical flowers and fruit to beef cattle and sugarcane, Brazil has retained its farm-based economy despite growing in other sectors by leaps and bounds over the past few decades. Brazil might be a little remote for U.S.-based travelers, but flights from hubs like Miami and Houston put it within reach. People who are seriously interested in agricultural practices will want to put this vast nation on their to-visit list because of its <a href="http://www.economist.com/node/16886442">innovative and sustainable farming practices</a>, which other countries are scrambling to learn and imitate.

• Hawaii

  People who don't want to dig out their passport but still want their farm adventure to have an exotic edge can head to the island of Hawaii. The 50th state boasts a well-developed farm tourism industry that can accommodate people with a diverse array of interests. The <a href="http://hiagtourism.org/">Hawaii Agritourism Association</a> offers resources for tourists who want to have a tropical farm experience or simply want to learn about and taste the state's best farm products. Agritourism options range from visiting <a href="http://www.gohawaii.com/big-island/guidebook/topics/coffee-plantations">coffee plantations</a> in the Big Island's Kona region to exploring the <a href="http://www.gohawaii.com/maui/plan-a-trip/activities/plantations-farms-and-gardens">plantations on Maui</a> to staying on organic farms on the easily reachable island of Oahu. There are enough farm tour options that people can enjoy a standard Hawaii beach or adventure vacation and include some agritourism activities on their itinerary without having to focus completely on farms.

• Grenada

  Grenada is growing as a <a href="http://www.grenadagrenadines.com/">tourist destination</a>, but it is also a haven for agriculture. From cocoa plantations to spice farms, this small island nation boasts a wealth of agritourism attractions. Nutmeg, mace, cloves, cinnamon and turmeric are grown in higher quantities here than in almost anywhere else in the world (and certainly more than anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere). One of the Caribbean's best agritourism resorts, the <a href="http://www.belmontestate.net/">Belmont Estates</a>, is located on Grenada. This three-century-old estate has a thriving nutmeg and cocoa business. Belmont features an organic farm and a restaurant that serves traditional Grenadian food made with ingredients grown on-site. Any tourist who appreciates flavor and spice and who wants to see exotic edibles at their source should definitely consider Grenada a top choice for a Caribbean-based farm experience.

• California

  California is one of the best places in the U.S. to enjoy a farm-stay, thanks to the diversity of crops and farms. Many smaller family farms in this West Coast state rely on agritourism to supplement their income. Plenty of people know about staying in the wineries and vineyards of the Central Coast and Sonoma areas, but <a href="http://www.calagtour.org/">small family farms</a> and large ranches also offer a more hands-on approach to agritourism. Many of these places teach small scale farming techniques and even offer strategies for organic growing. The University of California system, one of the largest state-run higher education systems in the U.S., has a <a href="http://www.sfp.ucdavis.edu/agritourism/">small-farm program</a> that helps growers create education-oriented agritourism businesses.

• Philippines

  With diverse conditions on different islands, the Philippines is an ideal place for visiting multiple agritourism sites or focusing on a niche product. Tourists can visit a huge <a href="http://www.markmaranga.com/camp-phillips-del-monte-pineapple-plantation-in-bukidnon/">pineapple plantation</a> for a taste of large scale agriculture, or they could focus on smaller operations, such as <a href="http://www.markmaranga.com/orchid-farm-in-davao/">orchid farms</a>, bee farms, and even small plantations that specialize in growing exotic tropical produce such as dragon fruit or papaya. The government of this beautiful Southeast Asian island nation is looking to <a href="http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/354543/developing-agritourism">actively bolster</a> what is already a successful niche for tour companies and farmers. It is also known for its accessibility because English is a widely spoken (almost universally spoken in many places) second language.

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From Mother Nature Network's Josh Lew: Agritourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the eco-tourism industry. There is nothing new about this form of travel, which involves staying on a far...

From Mother Nature Network's Josh Lew: Agritourism is one of the fastest growing sectors in the eco-tourism industry. There is nothing new about this form of travel, which involves staying on a far...

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Thanksgiving is the day when most (if not all) of your family comes together to eat. This year, why not deliver a truly pan-Canadian multicourse feast that's delicious and ready all at the same time. With only two weeks until the big day, now's the time to check out what's already in your pantry and create your master shopping list. Here are some of my top Canadian "buy now" ingredients to impress your guests on Thanksgiving Day.

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Analyst ups rating, price target on Dow Chemical

NEW YORK (AP) ? Shares of The Dow Chemical Co. rose Tuesday after a Goldman Sachs analyst raised his rating on the chemical manufacturer on expectations of better demand in improving global economic conditions.

THE OPINION: Goldman Sachs analyst Robert Koort raised his rating on Dow Chemical to "Buy" from "Neutral" and his 12-month price target to $36 per share from $32.

Koort also increased his 2013 earnings per share estimate to $2.51 from $2.43. Analysts surveyed by FactSet, on average, predict 2013 earnings of $2.51 per share.

Dow Chemical has taken steps to cut costs as its business has been hurt in the slower global economy. It has restructured operations to eliminate jobs and facilities in an effort to make global operations more efficient.

In a research note to clients, Koort said he believes Dow Chemical "offers leverage to a global recovery" because its sales are spread across most geographic regions. The Midland, Mich., manufacturer also offers products for a wide range of industries, including housing, electronics, and automobile manufacturing.

THE STOCK: Shares of Dow Chemical rose 4 cents to end at $28.83 and added 8 cents in after-hours trading. The stock has ranged from $24.42 to $36.08 in the past 52 weeks.

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Cisco Unveils WebEx Social for Higher Education | Government News

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DENVER, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 11/07/12 -- EDUCAUSE Booth #1114 -- To help higher education institutions achieve breakthrough levels of learning and teaching, Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced the Cisco WebEx? Social for Higher Education. This integrated, cloud-based solution, developed in concert with leading higher education institutions, including Duke University, North Carolina State University, Case Western Reserve and University of Chicago, goes beyond email, learning management systems and portals to connect people, capture the vast knowledge and expertise within the education ecosystem, and make those resources easily available to students and teachers anywhere.

The WebEx Social for Higher Education offer helps colleges and universities transform processes for increased productivity and innovation, while substantially reducing IT infrastructure cost and complexity. Users can quickly identify subject matter experts, gather group feedback, co-author documents, immediately with ready access to mentors, relevant communities based on their course of study, class syllabus, reading lists, and links to informational videos.

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• Cisco worked closely with academic leaders from Duke University, North Carolina State University, Case Western Reserve and University of Chicago on the development of the WebEx Social for Higher Education offer, to ensure its applicability and effectiveness in the education sector. All four institutions are currently piloting the solution, with Duke readying to extend it throughout its community -- students, staff, faculty and administration -- in the coming weeks.
• The WebEx Social for Higher Education offer includes integrated WebEx Social, WebEx Meetings and WebEx Messenger for presence and instant messaging delivered through the Cisco WebEx Cloud. The Cisco WebEx Cloud is a highly available cloud platform with unmatched performance, integration flexibility and enterprise-grade security. Its global footprint is ideal for universities with satellite campuses and distant learning students worldwide.
• WebEx Meetings and WebEx Messenger Integration let users easily move from social networking to real-time communications through click-to-start instant messaging and web conferencing directly from WebEx Social. The offer includes WebEx web conferencing for up to eight attendees via VOIP. (WebEx web conferencing for beyond eight attendees available at an additional cost).
• The ability to address the university need to dynamically manage user access to the system for tens of thousands of faculty, students, staff and administration is supported through mainstream technologies, including Active Directory synchronization and Shibboleth authentication. These technologies are used in the majority of higher education institutions.
• WebEx Social makes it easy for users to personalize their experience. Users can change layouts and customize page views by adding portlets and OpenSocial-compliant gadgets, RSS feeds, suggestions, and more. They can also view a consolidated activity stream of updates from their network, communities, and people they are following, as well as monitor their Watch List to keep up to date with important content that has been shared, manually added, or commented on. Users can also stay "connected" through WebEx Social's native support of multiple operating systems and devices, including the Apple iPhone and iPad.

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Tracy Futhey, vice president for information technology and chief information officer, Duke University
"We're always looking for open, affordable and easily extensible collaboration tools that can help to bring our vibrant and diverse community together, even when they are separated by time or place. Cisco was willing to work closely with us to truly understand the needs f the Duke community, and to find ways to meet those needs through the WebEx Social for Higher Education offering. As a result, we're bringing something unique and powerful to Duke, and by extension to higher education more broadly."

Renee Patton, senior director of education, US Public Sector for Cisco
"Technology is changing our lives at an incredibly rapid pace, yet significant work remains in providing colleges and universities with the collaboration tools needed to drive greater levels of knowledge sharing and innovation. We developed WebEx Social for Higher Education in close cooperation with leading education institutions, as a people-centric cloud collaboration platform that unifies the education workspace and provides a connected learning experience. We're excited about the impact this solution can have on improving the quality and effectiveness of education worldwide."

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China's outgoing leader sees unprecedented opportunity, unknown risks

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's outgoing President Hu Jintao said the nation faced risk and opportunity in equal measure as he formally opened a congress of the ruling Communist Party that will usher in a once-in-a-decade leadership change.

More than 2,000 hand-picked delegates gathered at Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People for the start of the week-long session, being held against a backdrop of growing social unrest, public anger at corruption and a yawning gap between rich and poor.

"At present, as the global, national and our party's conditions continue to undergo profound changes, we are faced with unprecedented opportunities for development as well as risks and challenges unknown before," Hu said in the customary speech signaling the start of the meeting.

During the congress, Hu will give up his role as party chief to anointed successor Vice President Xi Jinping. Xi then takes over state duties at the annual meeting of parliament in March.

The government has tightened security in the run-up to the congress, even banning the flying of pigeons in the capital, and has either locked up or expelled dozens of dissidents it fears could spoil the party.

Security was especially tight on Thursday around the Great Hall and Tiananmen Square next door, the scene of pro-democracy protests in 1989 that were crushed by the military.

Police dragged away a screaming protester as the Chinese national flag was raised at dawn.

The party, which came to power in 1949 after a long and bloody civil war, has in recent years tied its legitimacy to economic growth and lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty.

But China experts say that unless the new leadership pushes through stalled reforms, the nation risks economic malaise, deepening unrest, and perhaps even a crisis that could shake the party's grip on power.

Advocates of reform are pressing Xi to cut back the privileges of state-owned firms, make it easier for rural migrants to settle permanently in cities, fix a fiscal system that encourages local governments to live off land expropriations and, above all, tether the powers of a state that they say risks suffocating growth and fanning discontent.

The congress may also see cautious efforts to answer calls for more political reform, although nobody seriously expects a move towards full democracy.

Party spokesman Cai Mingzhao said on Wednesday there would be greater efforts at promoting "inner-party democracy" - in other words, encouraging greater debate within the party - but that one-party rule was inviolate.

"The leading position of the Communist Party in China is a decision made by history and by the people," he said. "Political system reform must suit China's national reality. We have to unswervingly stick to the right path blazed by the party."

And that path includes control over what people can see and hear in the news and on the internet.

"My internet has been cut off, I can't receive telephone calls and three people follow me when I leave the house to walk my dog," Xinna, the wife of one of China's longest-serving political prisoners, Mongol rights activist Hada, told Reuters.

"All I want from this congress is my husband to be released and for our lives to get back to normal," she said from her home in the frigid northern Chinese city of Hohhot.

A Tibetan rights group reported that three teenaged Tibetan monks in the southwestern province of Sichuan set themselves on fire on Wednesday in protest against Chinese rule, bringing to almost 70 the number of self-immolations by Tibetans in 18 months.

China has branded the self-immolators "terrorists" and criminals and has blamed exiled Tibetans and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, for inciting them.

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Why quick thinking leads to bad decisions

When people make hasty decisions, they tend to make more mistakes. Now, a new study on monkeys explains why: Brain cells become hypersensitive to new information, even bad information, making us likelier to draw faulty conclusions.

"When we try to do things too quickly, we tend to make more errors and then when we slow down we tend to be more accurate," said study co-author Richard Heitz, a neuroscientist at Vanderbilt University. "Your brain sees things differently when you're placed into a situation where you have to make snap decisions."

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The findings, which are detailed in Wednesday's issue of the journal Neuron, could shed light on the faulty decision-making of people with schizophrenia or other mental disorders.

To explain the phenomenon, Heitz and his colleagues trained two macaque monkeys to play a game in which they had to pick out the letter L in a sea of Ts or vice versa.

Before each round, a colored circle flashed on the screen to indicate whether the macaques would be rewarded for speed or accuracy.

In the speed test, the monkeys only received a tasty squirt of juice if they found the right letter quickly. In the accuracy test, monkeys got a squirt of juice no matter how long it took for them to find the right letter, but had a "timeout" if they made a mistake.

The researchers then recorded the activity of neurons in the brain region responsible for higher reasoning, the prefrontal cortex.

When the monkeys learned the next trial would be a speed test, the electrical activity from those neurons increased even before starting the test, like cars revving their engines in preparation for a race. During the speed trials, the team found that neurons responsible for visual processing fired more strongly when the monkeys indicated they had found the right letter. The neurons were more sensitive, as if the objects on the screen actually appeared brighter to the brain when it had to make decisions quickly, Heitz told LiveScience.

That higher sensitivity may sound good, but "because they're amplified, you may react to them as if they're more important than they actually are," meaning even faulty answers could be seen as the correct ones, he said.

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