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Care farming is the use of farming practices for the stated purpose of providing or promoting healing, mental health, social, or educational care services. Convicts may also be required to spend time at care farms. Care farms may provide supervised, structured programs of farming-related activities, including animal husbandry, crop and vegetable production and woodland management.


Effectiveness

Working on a care farm can help adult offenders gain new skills. More studies should be done on care farming to determine if it can be an alternative and adjuvant therapy for people with some mental illnesses (such as anxiety or depression). Care farming can be beneficial for the animals on the farm. For example, greater exposure to humans might reduce some of the stresses caused by typical agricultural practices, and having more people see the animals might increase the detection of parasites or other animal health issues.


History

Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush (April 19, 1813) was a Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father of the United States who signed the United States Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, ...
(1746–1813) published 5 books in a series of Medical Inquiries and Observations, the last being concerned with The Diseases of The Mind (1812). In this volume, the practice of horticulture is mentioned twice.


See also

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Animal-assisted therapy Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is an alternative or complementary type of therapy that includes the use of animals in a treatment. The goal of this animal-assisted intervention is to improve a patient's social, emotional, or cognitive functionin ...
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Ecopsychology Ecopsychology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinarity field that focuses on the synthesis of ecology and psychology and the promotion of sustainability. It is distinguished from conventional psychology as it focuses on studying the emotion ...
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Green exercise Green exercise refers to physical exercise undertaken in natural environments. Physical exercise is well known to provide physical and psychological health benefits. There is also good evidence that viewing, being in, and interacting with natural ...
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Horticultural therapy Horticultural therapy (also known as garden therapy or social and therapeutic horticulture or STH) is defined by the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA) as the engagement of a person in gardening and plant-based activities, facilita ...
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Prison farm A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts are forced to work on a farm legally and illegally (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air ...


References

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External links


National care farming organisations and networks


Agriculture & Care Federation (Netherlands)

Care Farming Scotland (United Kingdom)

Care Farming UK (United Kingdom)

Green Care Plattform (Austria)

Green Care – Plattform für Akteure und Nutzende im Bereich Umwelt und Gesundheit (Schweiz)

Support office for Green Care (Flanders, Belgium)
Agriculture Therapeutic community Biophilia hypothesis