United States Department of Agriculture
Natural Resources Conservation Service		 Economics Go to Accessibility Information
Skip to Page Content
 Using Soils Map


Alternative Enterprises and Agritourism:  Farming for Profit and Sustainability Resource Manual

Updated 05/11/2007
Table of Contents and Abstracts

The Resource Manual contains 2,300 pages of reference material.  It is divided into 20 chapters and 37 subchapters to guide you to a subject of interest.  The "Table of Contents and Abstracts" at the beginning of each chapter includes a brief description of articles, books, and publications.  Source information includes websites, telephone numbers, email, and addresses on how to obtain copies of the subject matter.  Each chapter contains articles, short publications, technical notes, and/or copies of the table of contents and forward or executive summary of books and publications.  If you have questions and/or want to obtain a paper copy of the Resource Manual "Table of Contents and Abstract" of the 20 chapters, please call the National Leader for Alternative Enterprises and Agritourism Senior Analyst at 202-720-7665, or Email Jerry.Namken@wdc.usda.gov.

Table of Contents
This report is also available in Adobe Acrobat format.  Some files are very large in size to download, so please save the files to your desktop and then open. 

Adobe Acrobat DocumentIntroduction — Cover Letter and Table of Contents (1.4 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter I — Alternative Enterprises and Agritourism Introduction (6.0 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter II — Assessing Natural Resources for Alternative Enterprises (421 KB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter III — Conservation Opportunities (44.0 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter IV — Rural Tourism (9.3 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter V — Agritourism (31.0 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter VI — Nature Tourism (20.0 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter VII — Heritage and Cultural Tourism (21.1 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter VIII — Alternative Enterprises (64.2 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter IX — Success Stories (19.0 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter X — Workshops (5.0 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XI — Trends and Data (9.5 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XII — Decision Making and Business Planning (16.3 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XIII — Regulations and Legal Concerns (4.1 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XIV — Liability Insurance (3.7 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XV — Marketing (78.4 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XVI — Funding and Assistance Programs (6.1 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XVII — Resource People (15.5 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XVIII — Outreach (7.1 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XIX — Website List (1.4 MB)
Adobe Acrobat DocumentChapter XX — Resources (141 KB)
 

For Further Information, please contract:

Jerry C. Namken, Ph.D.
Resource Economist
202 720 7665
Room 6143, South Building
Natural Resources Conservation Service
1400 Independence Ave. S.E.
Washington, DC 20250
Jerry.Namken@wdc.usda.gov

< Back to Alternative Enterprises and Agritourism