FARM VACATIONS:

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July/August 1973
By Sarah Funk 
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So teach your new friends how to milk a cow, show them the newborn kids and give the children the job of exploring the henhouse for eggs each evening. Above all, don't put on any masks. Just be yourselves and relax with your visitors. Share your delights with them, but also your plans, fears, problems and hopes. That's what these people have come for, whether they know it or not: they're after inspiration and regeneration, and they hope to find it through communion with nature and those close to nature. They will—let's hope—go back to their homes refreshed and relaxed, maybe ready to start a window garden or bake some bread.

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Viewed in this light, the Farm Vacation Game is a provider of inspiration to city dwellers as well as a welcome source of income for their country cousins. If you'd like to travel but can't get away, you can invite the world to your doorstep. Hang out your shingle, dust off the stoop and make a country pie. Somebody out there really needs your hospitality ... and they're more than willing to pay for it. If you've got some love and a room to spare, why not give farm holidays a try? The world just might become a better place because you did.

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