Useful Links

Farming for Health
An international group of researchers and practitioners who are working, researching and meeting yearly to enhance to scientific and practical knowledge of Care Farming in general and special themes in particular for example comparing education programmes for farmers, making guidelines for working on Care Farms.

COST Action 866 - Green care in Agriculture
The main objective of this COST action is to increase the scientific knowledge on the best practices for implementing green care in agriculture with the aim of improving human mental and physical health and the quality of life.

Farming for Health publication
This book gives an overview of the development of 'Farming for Health' initiatives across Europe. Researchers from The Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Slovenia, Germany, Belgium, Poland, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Austria and Italy as well as the USA contributed to this book. It not only describes the situation in different countries, it also includes scientific papers dealing with different aspects of 'Farming for Health'.

Centre for Environment, Science & Society - University of Essex
The centre is engaged in a wide range of basic, applied and action-oriented environmental research, including research into care farming and green exercise

Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens
FCFCG is the representative body for city farms, community gardens, school farms and similar community-led organisations in the UK.  It is a charity whose members range from organic community orchards to pockets of urban space saved from development; from allotments to well-established city farms.

Natural England
Information on Natural England's health campaign.

First Pasture
Specialist farming, smallholding and equestrian bookstore

Sustainable Resource Management
Sustainable Resource Management (SRM) offer a training and consultancy service specialising in sustainable development, countryside and resource management, renewable energy, social enterprise and sustainable building design.

The Magdalen Project
Magdalen Farm in Somerset is involved in a number of countryside and learning activities and also care farming. 

Farming Pages
A service for farmers centralizing the websites offering products and services readily available to them in a user-friendly format.  FarmingPages.com also gives smaller businesses (that may offer quality products and services, but lack the financial clout of large agri-businesses) the opportunity to market their products and services both nationally and internationally; all at a low cost.