Farm-based family businesses.

This chapter introduces three case studies of farm-based family businesses in Canada and Australia. Alborak Stables Inc. is a family-first business with lifestyle motivations, located in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, Canada. Tauton Farm in the southwest of Western Australia is also a business that builds on family farmlands, with the aim of keeping ownership of the land as paramount. The final case of Old MacDonald's is a campground on a family farm in Alberta, which was also started as a complement to rural living. In all three cases, family farming is the common ground and the decision to start a family business in tourism was a pragmatic response to the needs of the farm and the family.