About Care Farming...

Care farming promotes mental and physical health through giving people the opportunity to spend time working on the land.

Those who can benefit include people with learning difficulties, work-related stress, mental health issues, drug and alcohol problems or employability challenges.

Care farming is a partnership between land manager, service provider and client. Participants can work on traditional farms or in forestry, horticulture and other land management activities.

Care farming combines care of the land with care of people and there is evidence that it can deliver great personal, social and economic benefits for everyone involved.

Care farming boost the rural economy by helping farms and other rural businesses to stay economically viable through diversification into an activity that can generate significant income.

Research on Care Farming

To find out more about the research that has been carried out into care farming, and its potential implications for Care Farming Scotland, you need look no further than the excellent and comprehensive report carried out for Care Farming Scotland by Sarah Skerratt and her team at the Scottish Agricultural College, entitled Care Farming in Scotland: A Scoping Study.

Another major study worth looking at is the report by a team from the University of Essex for the National Care Farming Initiative, called Care Farming: Evidence and Opportunities.

For further information please visit the Care Farming Scotland website.