2025 Summer Farm Tour
You’re invited!
August 18 – 19, 2025
The 2025 Summer Farm Tour is open for registration!
This year, we are adding a 3-hour Workshop:
Digital Marketing Bootcamp: Take Your Digital Marketing to the Next Level
on the day after the Farm Tour.
2025 Farm Tour Pricing:
Workshop Description
Digital Marketing Bootcamp: Take Your Digital Marketing to the Next Level
This program covers the fundamentals that you need to tell your story and connect with online audiences, from understanding your customers and mapping their buyers’ journey to mastering social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. You’ll also learn how to design a website that is optimized for search engines and local audiences, along with other key strategies to build a powerful online presence.
Learn:
- How to set marketing goals that make sense for your business
- What motivates your target customers
- How to compare yourself to your competition
- Which social media platforms are right for your business
- What to post on Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn
- Website optimization strategies for visitors and search engines
- How to get found on local internet searches
- Using AI for planning and content creation
Sign up to Attend Now!
Membership is not required, but encouraged, to attend the 2025 Summer Farm Tour.
If you are already a member, click on one of these “Sign In” links. If you have not received login information from us, click on “Need a password?” and enter the email address you likely used for your membership in the past.
If you have not already renewed your membership for 2024/2025, you will be prompted to renew your membership before registering for the event.
Hotel Information
Overmountain Lodge at Tryon International Equestrian Center (Mill Spring, NC)
Group Rate: $139.00 + tax (includes breakfast)
Reservations: Call Tryon directly at (828) 863-1015 to make your hotel reservation
Cut-off Date: Group rate available until August 1, 2025
The Group Rate is available 3 days pre/post event so you can arrive early or extend your stay.
Overmountain Lodge at Tryon International Equestrian Center
Agenda
Sunday, August 17, 2025
4:00 pm
Check In at the Hotel
Overmountain Lodge at Tryon International Equestrian Center
Monday, August 18, 2025
8:00 am – 8:30 am
Farm Tour: Registration Open
Pick up your name badge in the hotel lobby before boarding the buses.
Buses will depart from the Overmountain Lodge at 8:30am.
8:30 am – 8:00 pm
Farm Tour
- Looking Glass Creamery (Columbus, NC)
- The Nix Pumpkin Patch (Hendersonville, NC)
- Stepp’s Hillcrest Orchard (Hendersonville, NC)
- Burntshirt Vineyard (Hendersonville, NC)
- McConnell Farms (Hendersonville, NC)
*Lunch will be provided during our stop at Stepp’s Hillcrest Orchard and dinner will be held onsite at Tryon International Equestrian Center.
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
9:00 am – 12:00 pm
Digital Marketing Bootcamp: Take Your Digital Marketing to the Next Level
Speakers:
- Kyle Hensel, Director of Continuing Education, University of Georgia SBDC
- Robbie Parks, Statewide CE Trainer, Business Consultant, University of Georgia SBDC