Talking with Tim, when he is onsite, is a pleasure. You can see an actual gator nest, hold gator eggs, feel gator hides (skin), and then take a photo holding a gator. Visitors watch a film about gator farming and then walk through displays of the various phases. Tim calls the gator farm tour, The Egg to Wallet Tour.

Residents and visitors have selected Greenwood as the best attraction in Houma/Thibidoux two years in a row. Richard Domangue started Greenwood in 1986 and Tim “The Gator Man” Domangue (his son) purchased it in 2003. Please see the Gator Farming: Background and Process sections below. The specific purpose is to raise and farm gators, to sell the meat and hides. Greenwood Gator Farm is one of 12 gator farms in Louisiana and the only place where people can tour a working gator farm. swamp tour at Greenwood Gator Farm Greenwood Gator Farm: Farm Tour The Bayou tour through the swamp acclimates and educates visitors about the gator’s role in the bigger picture and is a great way to start the overall experience. Gators only see black and white and Big Mike feeds them marshmallows. Small gators heat up quicker so they surface first on chilly days. Being cold blooded, gators stay underwater until the air temperature is 70 degrees. On the airboat ride through the swamp we did not see gators at first. Gator farming and tourism are now the prominent industries in this part of the Louisiana Bayou. German prisoners helped build the sugar cane fields.

The logging industry appeared first in the Louisiana Bayou, followed by sugar cane, and then oil. This area housed many German POW camps and after World War 2 many Germans chose to stay, he explained.

Big Mike says he was raised on crawfish and sauerkraut cabbage. Big Mike-our guide for the Bayou tour at Greenwood-is a big Cajun guy with (surprising to me) German ancestry. The Greenwood Gator Farm Tour experience begins with an hour-long airboat ride through the surrounding swamp. Learn all about the powerful and popular creatures, feed them, hold them (really!), plus take a swamp tour-all at Greenwood Gator Farm in Gibson, Louisiana, an easy day trip from New Orleans.

Highlighting our trip to Louisiana’s Bayou Country was a visit to Greenwood Gator Farm.

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