Benefits to Service Users
Research (University of Essex 2008), shows that working on a care farm can significantly increase self-esteem and reduce feelings of anger, confusion, depression, tension and fatigue, whilst also enabling participants to feel more active and energetic. Care farming therefore offers an ideal way of helping a wide variety of people to feel better about themselves.
There is convincing current evidence that connects regular contact with the natural environment to enhanced physical health and mental well being. This incorporates a variety of outdoor settings, from the open countryside, fields and forests, remote wildlands, parks and open spaces, allotments and gardens. This evidence has been widely reported recently and the key message emerging is that contact with these green spaces improves psychological health by reducing pre-existing stress levels, enhancing mood and offering both a restorative environment and a protective effect from future stresses.
Specific benefits of horticultural therapy, green exercise and animal therapy:-
There is convincing current evidence that connects regular contact with the natural environment to enhanced physical health and mental well being. This incorporates a variety of outdoor settings, from the open countryside, fields and forests, remote wildlands, parks and open spaces, allotments and gardens. This evidence has been widely reported recently and the key message emerging is that contact with these green spaces improves psychological health by reducing pre-existing stress levels, enhancing mood and offering both a restorative environment and a protective effect from future stresses.
Specific benefits of horticultural therapy, green exercise and animal therapy:-
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