Prof Ann Hemingway, Dr Caroline Ellis Hill and Dr Liz Norton have recently completed a research project with a local Care Farm in Dorset. They were interested to see what staff felt they were offering to people who visited the care farm. They found that the Care Farm offered an inclusive environment conducive to visitors’ personal growth; enabling them to connect with themselves, others and nature and to develop autonomy and a greater sense of wellbeing.
The team are planning to bid for funding to investigate further the impact of nature on young people’s health and wellbeing in partnership with local care farms and schools.
If you would like to find out more about the study please see the published paper here http://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S1573521416300501
or contact Ann Hemingway, Liz Norton, Caroline Ellis-Hill
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