More and more travellers are abandoning traditional holidays in favour of staying on a working farm. Rosie Paterson investigates why and where to find the best.
‘It’s funny how these things come back with a different label,’ muses Julian Matthews, the founding and managing director of Real Wild Estates. He’s talking about agritourism, the meeting of agriculture and tourism, a growing global trend based on an old idea. For much of the 20th century, farmers…