The first farm I visited on our happy-happy farm day last Saturday was called Elegant Farmer - A Wonderful Shopping Experience™. I could stop writing here and you'd still get an idea of what I'm talking about. But, I'm too tempted to go on.
On the Elegant Farmer - A Wonderful Shopping Experience™ -farm you could get hayride pulled by a tracktor after queuing for half an hour (3 bucks), pick your own apples and pumpkins ($ bucks), eat "Jumbo Fresh Fruit Muffins, Fruit Crisps & Pies, Fresh Fruit Breads and Old Fashioned Jumbo Cookies to deli specials including CiderBaked Ham®, Pulled Pork, Gourmet Popcorn, Blue Ribbon Cheeses and Fruity Applesauces" ($$$ bucks), or even buy the haystack you're sitting on for 6 bucks. Basically, everything and anything is for sale. So, instead of manure, I couldn't help to smell raw commercialism.
The place looked more like festival grounds than a farm with a parking lot filled with dozens and dozens of cars and long queues of people waiting to get tickets or food. Only Kanye West and U2 were missing to complete the festival feeling, since they even had the blue bathroom booths.
Welcome to the Glastonbu... the farm.
The other farm we visited was a quiet family farm with a couple of horses and nothing for sale. We were offered fresh outdoor-oven-baked pizza (free), pumpkin carving (free), stories (free), and a variety of delicious desserts (free). The people were nice and I smelled honest manure instead of commercialism.
Pumpkin carving was so bloody fun. (Pun intended)
Some might say that it is completely unfair to compare these two farms, but I just did it, didn't I. If they both call themselves farms I might as well compare them even if they have nothing in common. Not even the smell.
PS. I heard that the paper-bag-baked apple pie is pretty good at the Elegant Farmer - A Wonderful Shopping Experience™ but I didn't try it so I wouldn't know.
(source: http://www.elegantfarmer.com/about.html)
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