RedFox Blog: Wet Tracks

Post 271 18/10/18

Fancy a day out to drive a tractor a tank or a landrover ? Then if you do you would then go to a activity centre. These centres are really a out sourced area of a farm. We have one near us and it is a very big indoor and out door centre. You can drive go carts indoors or you can drive a tank that would of course be out doors. All these are to keep up the good work of our farming communities. As they struggle with growing crops or have to fund the buying cows and then making a loss.

Diversifying as it is called means the business of farming can carry on alongside means that increasingly this has to happen. We have a farm that grows maize. It is a crop! But it is sown in a way to create a maze. So when its still growing the maize becomes a local attraction and many children have fun trying to get out of the maze. Its alo a day out to see the farm animals and a food area has been built to accommodate all the visitors. Then during the later part of the season towards the end of September the crop is harvested.

This is a good way of a bio diversity business can work and the farm can carry on as normal. It also generates extra income which is then ploughed back into the business. Also above all it provides employment opportunities for local people. It is unique in what it does and it helps to provide the farmer with extra opportunities to generate extra cash for his business. It is so well known that one year it was not done and many people asked if it will ever be back. It got into the local press and the farm this year re-sown the maize and it was back! So diversifying does have benefits as well as the wet tracks.