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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. In nineteenth century Scotland, teaching farming skills to young offenders was tried as a means of reducing recidivism and promoting honest labour. The farm school at
Riddrie Riddrie () is a north-eastern district of Glasgow, Scotland. It lies on the A80 Cumbernauld Road. Location and amenities Riddrie is a predominantly residential area consisting of 1920s or earlier semi-detached houses (especially in the area kno ...
in the period 1866-68 taught 158 boys. Of these, 64 were subsequently described as "doing well" (ie keeping out of a life of crime). The Riddrie experiment ended due to unrelated costs issues in 1871. More studies on care farming are desirable to determine whether it can be an alternative and adjuvant therapy for people with certain mental illnesses (such as anxiety or depression). Care farming can be beneficial for the animals on the farm. For example, greater exposure to humans has the potential to reduce some of the stresses caused by typical agricultural practices. Having more people see the animals may increase the detection of parasites or other animal health issues.


History

Benjamin Rush Benjamin Rush (April 19, 1813) was an American revolutionary, a Founding Father of the United States and signatory to the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and a civic leader in Philadelphia, where he was a physician, politician, social refor ...
(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 functioning ...
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Ecopsychology Ecopsychology is an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary 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 e ...
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Horticultural therapy Horticultural therapy (also known as garden therapy or social and therapeutic horticulture) involves using gardening activities to promote human healing and rehabilitation. History Alice Burlingame and Donald Watson authored the first book on h ...
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Prison farm A prison farm (also known as a penal farm) is a large correctional facility where penal labor convicts work legally or illegally on a farm (in the wide sense of a productive unit), usually for manual labor, largely in the open air, such as in ...


References

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External links


National care farming organizations and networks


Care Farming Network (United States)

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