Care Farming Scotland
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CARE FARMING SCOTLAND IS GO!
Launch event 'exceeds expectations'
The launch of Care Farming Scotland at Ingliston on 19 May has been hailed as a great success by Steering Group Chair Martin Robb, who said that it had met and even exceeded the group's expectations.
More than 90 people attended the event, and heard speakers including Sir Donald Curry - who was the inspiration behind Care Farming Scotland - Richard Lochhead, Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Debbie Wilcox from the National Care Farming Initiative and Bill McKelvey of the SAC who gave an update on the SAC's offer to resource the setting up of Care Farming Scotland and provide a secretariat for its first year of operation.
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What is 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.
You can find out more about Care Farming Scotland here.
"To see others benefit from our lovely farm that we ourselves so enjoy. It is a privilege to see the progress created in others' lives, simply by sharing the farm livestock and environment with them"
Care Farmer, quoted in National Care Farming Initiative research report.
