{"title":"Care Farming: A Natural Therapy for Healthy Life","authors":"Gopu B","doi":"10.23880/oajar-16000304","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Care farming is a form of 'Green Care' providing opportunities for those suffering from a range of health problems to work in horticultural/agricultural activities as a means of physical health, promoting mental and social wellbeing. This type of naturebased therapy or therapeutic intervention uses farms and agricultural landscapes to boost mental, social, and physical health through routine farming activities for people with a specified need.","PeriodicalId":497825,"journal":{"name":"Open access journal of agricultural research","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Open access journal of agricultural research","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.23880/oajar-16000304","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Care farming is a form of 'Green Care' providing opportunities for those suffering from a range of health problems to work in horticultural/agricultural activities as a means of physical health, promoting mental and social wellbeing. This type of naturebased therapy or therapeutic intervention uses farms and agricultural landscapes to boost mental, social, and physical health through routine farming activities for people with a specified need.