The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: animalcrackers on May 26, 2016, 06:13:42 pm
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has anyone any experience of care farming
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No but I would be interested in what it is :)
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Me too!
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hang on I remember what it is, it is fostering children and rearing them up on your farm, so they can help out too but also have a very good home. I know of someone who runs a smallholding and fostered about 6-7 children, they are well looked after and he is a lovely guy and very caring and they have a very happy life.
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Its an umbrella term I think for any kind of 'therapeutic' use of a farm. We've looked in to it before, and I guess done some of it - to a small extent. We used to have weekly visits from a small group of severely disabled ladies and their carers who would meet the animals and then help with some simple jobs such as sowing seeds and potting on.
We talked for a while about running a more serious program with a local market garden/nursery and farm shop that works with adults with learning difficulties and mental health issues, but then my wife went back to hospital work full time and the momentum was lost :(
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It's something I am very interested in developing here once all our children are at school, although I expect just how rural we are may be a disadvantage.
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We used to live just up the road from this place: https://silverbirchscotland.org.uk/ (https://silverbirchscotland.org.uk/)
A great bunch of folks, who were doing a great job for both the local community and themselves :thumbsup:
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thank you for all your replies. we are seriously considering at the moment and have been for a few years now. hopefully i will find out more soon