FANTASTIC
FARMS FIND YOUR
AGRITOURISM ADVENTURE! Grissom’s Lost Creek Orchard outside of Greenup offers up peaches as well, but they’re famous for their pumpkins, apples and apple cider! Photo Credit: @kyra_carlen
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ne of the fastest growing areas of tourism in the last twenty years is agriculture-based tourism. Folks love to visit places where they can get outdoors and pick their own produce, cut down a family Christmas tree, or walk through a corn maze. ILLINOISouth is full of farms that are ready to welcome you! For a truly unique and up-close experience with animals – Rainbow Ranch Petting Zoo in rural Washington County is definitely worth a trip. Aside from traditional farm animals like pigs, donkeys 14
and horses – Rainbow Ranch also has SEVERAL exotic animals for your family to experience. Everything from zebras and camels to a macaw and even kangaroos! The springtime is when they officially open up their season, and also when they host ‘baby bonanza’ – allowing visitors to bottle feed all of the new baby animals the farm has! Cows are the crown jewel at Marcoot Jersey Creamery as well as Rolling Lawns Farms, both located in Greenville. Marcoot provides area grocery stores and Agritourism
restaurants with delicious cheese products, as well as ice cream – and folks can visit their farm for those fresh products as well. Rolling Lawns is all about milk products but prepare yourself for a wide variety, including flavors of milk you may have never heard of. Not only do they supply the typical whole milk and two percent, but Rolling Lawns also has chocolate, strawberry, and cappuccino flavor varieties. Their egg nog is a huge hit around the Holidays as well – stop by their Milk House in Greenville to take some home!
ILLINOISouth Tourism Guide 2021
