{"id":11959,"date":"2020-12-18T16:20:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T23:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11959"},"modified":"2020-12-18T18:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T01:30:16","slug":"forget-ecotourism-try-fairytourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11959","title":{"rendered":"Forget Ecotourism\u2014Try Fairytourism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Part of Pat Noone’s farm (Agriland)<\/p><\/div>\n

Ecotourism often involves naturalist-guided tours of relatively wild areas, but also visits to small-scale agricultural producers, also called “agritourism.” Sometimes this operates in a B&B fashion. See, for example, the state of Vermont’s guide.<\/a><\/p>\n

But never mind milking cows and picking berries. Suppose you could offer encounters with the Other Crowd?<\/p>\n

Pat Noone, a Irish farmer in County Galway, is almost there already.<\/a><\/p>\n

A lot of people come here to see the fairies in this field and they get great experiences here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have the porthole to the fairy world, where the blackthorn meets the whitethorn.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noone says that people come to the area and get great experiences of peace, joy, healings and some \u201cfind emotions here\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to Noone, the members of the aos s\u00ed (fairy world) speak normal English to him, as it is the only language he has \u2013 but that they \u201cwill speak any language you want to speak\u201d.<\/p>\n

The fairy fort is a place where the fairies \u201clive and congregate\u201d.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve seen the fairies here on a lot of occasions \u2013 playing music, having a drink and dancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey look like the image of yourself \u2013 whatever height you are, they will be that height. They are the very same image as us, when they want to show themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the time they don\u2019t show themselves and they have shown themselves to people that were here and didn\u2019t show themselves to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pointing to the branches of the fairy tree in the field, Noone explains that a lot of people tie bits of material as a \u201cthank you or a wish to the fairies\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI generally give them [visitors] pieces of rushes from now on; I don\u2019t give them anymore cloths because the whole place was covered in cloths.\u201d<\/p>\n

Noone feels that he gets great inspiration when he goes to the field.<\/p>\n

I go in here [wondering] about when to sell livestock and that\u2019s only the farming end of it. Just to know when to sell and be ahead and thank God this year I obeyed them [fairies] \u2013 I\u2019m well ahead before the lockdown.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course I believe in it \u2013 it has helped me in farming a lot.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I like that this article appeared on Agriland,<\/a> “Ireland’s Largest Farming-News Portal.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ecotourism often involves naturalist-guided tours of relatively wild areas, but also visits to small-scale agricultural producers, also called “agritourism.” Sometimes this operates in a B&B fashion. See, for example, the state of Vermont’s guide. But never mind milking cows and picking berries. Suppose you could offer encounters with the Other Crowd? 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