Biology:Care farming

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Care farming

Care farming is the use of farming practices for the stated purpose of providing or promoting healing, mental health, social, or educational care services.[1][2][non-primary source needed] Convicts may also be required to spend time at care farms.[3] Care farms may provide supervised, structured programs of farming-related activities, including animal husbandry, crop and vegetable production and woodland management.[4][non-primary source needed]

Effectiveness

Working on a care farm can help adult offenders gain new skills.[3] 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 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).[5] The Riddrie experiment ended due to unrelated costs issues in 1871.[6] 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).[7]

Care farming can be beneficial for the animals on the farm.[8] 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 (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.[9][better source needed][clarification needed]

Students learn how to weed in specially designed wheelchair accessible garden beds.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Social Farms & Gardens |". https://www.farmgarden.org.uk/. 
  2. ↑ CareFarmingScotland.org.uk
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Murray, J; Coker, JF; Elsey, H (2019). "Care farming: Rehabilitation or punishment? A qualitative exploration of the use of care farming within community orders.". Health Place 58: 102156. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2019.102156. PMID 31301600. 
  4. ↑ National Care Farming Initiative (UK)
  5. ↑ (in en) Reports from Commissioners. Ordered to be printed. 1870. https://books.google.com/books?id=NytcAAAAQAAJ&dq=%22Riddrie%22+-wikipedia&pg=RA4-PA75. 
  6. ↑ See generally under Riddrie, Reformatory at Riddrie Farm
  7. ↑ Murray, Jenni; Wickramasekera, Nyantara; Elings, Marjolein; Bragg, Rachel; Brennan, Cathy; Richardson, Zoe; Wright, Judy; Llorente, Marina G. et al. (December 2019). "The impact of care farms on quality of life, depression and anxiety among different population groups: A systematic review" (in en). Campbell Systematic Reviews 15 (4): e1061. doi:10.1002/cl2.1061. ISSN 1891-1803. PMID 37131853. 
  8. ↑ Gorman, R (2019). "What's in it for the animals? Symbiotically considering 'therapeutic' human-animal relations within spaces and practices of care farming.". Med Humanit 45 (3): 313–325. doi:10.1136/medhum-2018-011627. PMID 31409658. 
  9. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20110626232346/http://www.lboro.ac.uk/research/ccfr/growing_together/Dr%20Rush%20and%20Therapeutic%20Horticulture.pdf. Retrieved 2011-08-22. 

External links

National care farming organisations and networks



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