From a foreign perspective, leisure farms first appeared in Europe and have a development history of more than 100 years. In 1855, Parisian aristocrats had the habit of going to the countryside for vacation. In 1865, Italy established the "Agricultural and Tourism Association". By the 1960s, Spanish leisure farms were developing rapidly, and a number of farms emerged that provided tourists with mountaineering, horseback riding, hiking, boating, and farming experience leisure services. They also provided agricultural knowledge and skills training services, creating a global precedent for leisure agriculture. After that, leisure farms with similar service contents appeared in other European countries, the United States and Japan. Generally speaking, foreign leisure farms mainly have the following development models.

Japanese model: Japanese urban farms mainly provide tourists with farming-style leisure experience services. Tourists can engage in agricultural activities such as rice transplanting, harvesting, grazing, milking, and fishing on the farm. They are very popular among urban residents. A considerable number of tourists have developed.

Korean model: Korean farms mainly appear in areas around some big cities, mainly "tourist farms" and "weekend farms", providing tourists with catering, accommodation, farming experience, leisure and entertainment, etc. kind of service. The Korean government provides financial and policy support for leisure farms, forming a large-scale agricultural tourism economy.

American model: American leisure farms mainly use the vast land space and rich natural resources in the suburbs to open camping, fishing, horseback riding and other leisure and entertainment services. At the same time, they use family farms to develop special leisure tourism projects. Every year More than 20 million tourists visited.

French model: France has established a leisure agriculture industry association to provide food, sightseeing, wine tasting and other leisure and entertainment activities in rural areas and farms around the city. The annual output value of the leisure agriculture economy exceeds 70 billion francs.

German model: There are a large number of "holiday farms" scattered around German cities and in the outer suburbs, which mainly provide farm vacation services for urban residents. Here, tourists can not only experience farm life, but also have close contact with people in nature and appreciate the countryside. Unique pastoral scenery. More than 1/2 of the tourists stay for more than 1 week at a time, and more than 60% of the tourists visit the leisure farm 2-3 times a year.

With the continuous development of society and economy, my country's rural tourism market has gradually formed and grown rapidly. The number and scale of leisure farms have also expanded significantly, and the following common development models have formed.

Beijing model: The Beijing model mainly meets residents’ needs for leisure and vacation through more comfortable leisure and vacation environments and places, leisure and entertainment activities with cultural connotations, and educational leisure agricultural experiences. . In the 1990s, the Beijing Chaoyang Government proposed the “Agricultural Development Strategy” to clearly develop urban agriculture. In 1996, Beijing included tourism agriculture into the city's six key agricultural development industries. At present, the more representative leisure farms in Beijing include "Xiaotangshan Modern Ecological Agriculture Sightseeing Park", "Splendid China Agricultural Science and Technology Exhibition Hall", "Pangezhuang Watermelon Picking Garden", "Miaofengshan Cherry Orchard", etc. The agricultural park mainly provides tourists with agricultural sightseeing, farming experience and other leisure and entertainment projects. In addition, Beijing has also built folk cultural tourism villages such as Yaoqiaoyu Village in Miyun, Shentangyu Village in Huairou, and Bodhisattva Deer Village in Changping, providing tourists with one-stop leisure tourism services such as accommodation, food, sightseeing, and entertainment.

Shanghai model: Shanghai attracts urban residents to visit, experience, shop and play through leisure farms and tourist farms. At present, the more representative leisure farms in Shanghai include: Pudong Sunqiao Modern Agricultural Park, which mainly provides agricultural science and technology exhibitions, orchard picking experience, sightseeing tours and other services; Chongming Island Green Agricultural Ecological Park, which mainly provides farming experience, sightseeing, farm entertainment, etc. Service content; Kangdeng Horticulture Garden and China Flower Training Base focus on flowers, providing gardening, viewing, and leisure travel; Songjiang Vegetable Garden provides pastoral landscape tours and green vegetable sales, attracting a large number of tourists.

Guangzhou model: With the theme of participation, experience, and procurement, activities such as picking, tasting, and sightseeing are carried out based on agricultural, forestry, fruit and other leisure agricultural resources. Since the 1990s, the Guangzhou Municipal Government has formulated a number of policies and documents to encourage and support the development of leisure farms. The more representative leisure farms include the following categories: Chencun Flower World in Shunde offers agricultural sightseeing and leisure tourism with flowers as the main body; Panyu’s Million Sunflower Garden mainly provides agricultural sightseeing, leisure and picking entertainment projects; Conghua’s The Agricultural Grand View Garden is a modern agricultural comprehensive sightseeing and leisure tourism project. In addition, Panyu Hengzhu Holiday Farm provides tourists with accommodation, food, sightseeing, and leisure travel projects.