{"id":18,"date":"2008-02-12T22:42:58","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T22:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-07-15T16:31:28","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T16:31:28","slug":"agricultural-destination-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/12\/agricultural-destination-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Agricultural Destination Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we travel, we come across wineries that are more than just a winery. The owners believe that vineyards are a way of preserving and appreciating the land. Many will talk about value-added farming or agritourism. Here you may see a mix of vineyards, winery, tours, lodging and perhaps a reaching out to other agricultural interests. A large agricultural destination site, we visited recently is Black Star Farms in Michigan. Here you will see vineyards, a winery, a distillery, orchards, pears in brandy bottles (how do they do that?), creamery, stables as well as an elegant bed and breakfast. In addition they assist with rescued animals. This is definitely a destination site for couples and families. Donald Coe is continually searching for new ideas to promote Black Star Farms as an agricultural destination site. If you can&#8217;t make it to the winery, check out the Wine Trail Traveler article at\u00a0http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/michigan\/blackstarfarms.php.Cheers!Kathy\u00a0<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" class=\"owbutton\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onlywire.com\/button\" title=\"Agricultural Destination Sites\" url=\"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/?p=11\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we travel, we come across wineries that are more than just a winery. The owners believe that vineyards are a way of preserving and appreciating the land. Many will talk about value-added farming or agritourism. Here you may see a mix of vineyards, winery, tours, lodging and perhaps a reaching out to other agricultural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[6,8,12,89],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-taste-of-wine","tag-agricultural-destination","tag-agritourism","tag-black-star-farms","tag-value-added"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/winetrailtraveler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}