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Jenn Colby/You Can Host Five-Star Farmstays
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  • $299 or 3 monthly payments of $100

Wondering if FIVE-STAR FARMSTAYS is right for you?

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  • Course
  • 63 Lessons

  • Online modules to take at your own pace plus resource materials to keep forever.
  • Taught by a farmer with 25 years of customer service experience.
  • Live Q&A, Private FB group cohort, and email access to get your questions answered.
  • Video walkthrough of two farmstay types with detailed tips and recommendations.

"This course gave me the confidence to finally do the last few things and list my farmstay. We had our first booking within twelve hours, and they haven't stopped!"   -K.T.

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Have you been thinking about adding overnight stays to your farm or ranch business? Here’s a way to help you get a jump start WITHOUT reinventing the wheel!

You can add a steady stream of income to your farm or ranch that does not depend on adequate rain, solid commodity markets, or tons of money. On-farm (or ranch) overnight stays take a little work to set up well, but once they are running, can help ease the challenges of seasonal paychecks and year-round expenses. Hosting farmstays has really helped my farm business, and I'm excited for it to help your business, too. 
"I have thoroughly enjoyed this course. The course I took last year (from another entity) did not come close to being the help that your course is!" -K.H.

Hi, I'm Jenn.

For over 25 years I've worked professionally in agriculture and customer service. For 22 years I've been a farmer myself, raising all types of livestock.
 
As the first person in my family in two generations to actively farm, I've had to start from scratch on a lot of topics from animal management to building fence to marketing my products. I also had to learn to run a farm business; something very few farmers--first-generation or not--are taught. Running the numbers on my business really helped me understand how challenging it is to run a farm through changing seasons, expenses, and unpredictable income.
 
Hosting farmstays has really helped even-out my farm business cash flow and increase profitability.
 
In 2022, I started the Choosing to Farm podcast to tell the stories of livestock farmers and ranchers to the world. 
 
I'm also collecting useful resources to help new (and existing) farmers and ranchers find greater success and higher quality of life. I deliver resources to help you heal agriculture's relationship with success and expand the community of healthy, whole, profitable farming/ranching operations.

Hosting Five-Star Farmstays is one way for you to increase your profits and share your story!
 
Let’s get started, shall we? 
"Knowing I had the FB group full of like-minded people to post questions, problems and wins helped me feel safe while we moved into this new venture." 
-FSF participant
Yes! Enroll me in Five-Star Farmstays

What’s Included?

Five-Star Farmstays is aimed at taking you inside the real host experience with practical, useful tips to increase your farm income in the short—and long—term. Based on multiple years’ experience hosting on-farm events, farmstays, pastures walks, conferences, and other public-facing agriculture activities, this course will highlight ways to save precious time, show you where to invest time and energy for great return, and detail step-by-step ways to increase cash flow.  Filled with videos, site walkthroughs, checklists, web resources, and more…this electronic material will be yours to keep.

We’ll also be live on monthly Q&A and special guest speaker calls, and inside the Five-Star Farmstays private Facebook group, where a wealth of knowledge and experience will be shared. 

Answering Your Questions

Each registration includes one-to-one consultation time to help you work through your situation or specific concerns.

Let’s Succeed Together

The course is designed to be flexible for your needs as well as create a community of farmers and ranchers supporting each other to increase guests, ratings, and income.

Balance Your Time & Money

Learn about the small, powerful places to invest yourself and your resources to yield repeat guests and more farm/ranch income.

Guest Interaction

Hear from an active farmstay host about what interacting with guests is really like, and how much time it actually takes (not as much as you might think!). 

"I loved that you answered real questions about time and expense that I have." -C.B.

Practical Experience

Plenty of places offer hosting tips, but how many know your particular challenges of balancing farm or ranch management with the public? This program comes from 20+ years of walking between agriculture and the public. 

What Else?

We’ve collected references to fill in more details, like purchase lists, checklists, web resources, and more! All in one place to make it easy for you. 

Testimonials from Five-Star Farmstay Participants

Yes! Enroll me in Five-Star Farmstays

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