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Author: Dr. John LaPuma<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What are care farms? Simply put, a care farm involves the\u00a0therapeutic use of farming practices<\/a>\u00a0to facilitate healing. Also known as green care or therapeutic farming, care farming is supervised and structured, providing \u201cfarming-related activities for individuals with a defined need.\u201d These\u00a0activities<\/a>\u00a0include things like animal husbandry (livestock, small animals, poultry), agriculture, horticulture, woodland management, produce collection, craft-making, woodworking,\u00a0garden<\/a>\u00a0tending, habitat restoration, and\u00a0more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Care farms provide structured and supervised care services, usually as part of an educational or rehabilitative program. They have been found to be successful for a variety of vulnerable groups, such as people with mental health problems, people suffering from mild to moderate depression<\/a>, adults and children with learning disabilities, children with autism<\/a>, people with a drug or alcohol addiction history, disaffected youths, and people on probation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Dr. John LaPuma’s blog post…<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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