Videos about green care

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Growing success (United Kingdom)

"Are care farms the answer to disaffected teenagers' problems? Hazel Davis investigates." Guardian article including 3.30 min video on care farming. The video features Carlshead farm near Wetherby, Yorks. This farm offers facilities for students aged between 14 and 16 with a range of different needs, including learning or behavioural difficulties, those who are not attending school or are at risk. The video can be seen on the Guardian website - 12 March 2008. (Shared by Dorine Ruter.)

Cyrenians Farm "Sowing Dreams" (Scotland)

Cyrenians Farm is a small but growing social enterprise, located 7 miles outside Edinburgh just off the A71. Created to provide much needed work-based opportunities for vulnerable young people, the farm is also home to a thriving market garden, soft fruit plantations, apples and plum orchards, chicken and sheep flocks and a small apiary. We have converted outhouses into a commercial production kitchen and a rustic training room. On-site activities are structured around farm-based work and include corporate team-building challenges, structured learning for vulnerable young people, short day courses and provision of volunteering opportunities. More information can be found at: www.cyrenians.org.uk. The film can be seen on YouTube: Part 1 and Part 2. (Shared by Dorine Ruter.)

Day care for elderly people at green care farms (Netherlands)

Developed by Erve Knippert in Haaksbergen (erveknippert AT planet.nl). This DVD is available in different languages, and provides interesting information (and shots) about activities of elderly people at green care farms. (Shared by Simone de Bruin.)

Zaaijers (Netherlands)

A short movie inspired by the research project "Shifting Paradigms in Green Care". For this research project (coordinated by Omslag Foundation), pioneering Dutch green care farmers were interviewed about the essence of social farming. The movie is an artistic product illustrating how green care can be of value to both the client and the farmer. The movie is in Dutch, but has an option for English subtitles. Contact Omslag for more information. (Shared by Henk Poppenk.)

Social Farming Documentary (Europe)

The European SoFar (Social Farming)research programme is completing a video-documentary as end product of their programme. It is a kind of journey across different realities/cases in the 7 participating countries. People involved in SoFar (and CoP member) hope to be able to show it in the next CoP meeting in Italy. Contact SoFar for more information. (Shared by Paolo Pieroni.)

Social Farming Documentary (France)

French participants in SoFar will also produce 2 shorts films on 2 local initiatives:
- a social inclusion garden
- a therapeutic farm for autistic persons.
These films will be developed with the documentary images of SoFar participant and CoP member Gerald Assouline and images made by stakeholders in the local projects.

The films were shown at the 2009 CoP meeting in Italy as well. (Shared by Gerald Assouline.)

Activities on green care farms (Norway)

In Alta in Norway a DVD was produced about different activities on green care farms. It is in Norwegian only, but the music and the pictures will tell you a lot. On the website of Alta Kommune you can see the film divided into five parts. (Shared by Evy Olsen.)

TV item on 2 Derbyshire care farms (England)

Below is a link to something which appeared last Sunday on the "Politics Show", but you need to fast forward to about 46 minutes to see it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fs8qc. It features two of our care farms in Derbyshire talking about some of the issues which they face and following this publicity there was a debate in the House of Commons on Monday night with our Minister for Agriculture and Environment being very supportive of the development of care farming here in the UK. (Shared by Debbie Wilcox.)

Short film about a care farm in Yorkshire (England)
Online at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/1/hi/england/7720318.stm (Shared by Debbie Wilcox.)

Healing Greens: Local vets find solace in horticultural therapy (United States)
The Enterprise of Brockton, Mass. Website at www.enterprisenews.com. Introduction by Maria Papadopoulos:
Chris Pina bent down to quietly clip several yellow marigolds. Surrounding him were expansive patches of pumpkins, green pepper and tomato plants, and sunflowers. The lush greenery is a far cry from the battlegrounds of Afghanistan for Pina, who served an eight-month tour of duty there. Here, as his hands work the soil, as he picks ripening vegetables, Pina says he feels "calm" and finds solace. "It's peaceful," said Pina, 24, of Brockton, who was earlier hospitalized for post traumatic stress disorder. He is among local veterans taking part in a horticultural therapy program at the Veterans Administration Medical Center on Belmont Street in Brockton. "It got me strong again," retired Air Force Sgt. Lee A. Pierce of Brockton said of the garden that has grown, for more than a decade, deep within the red-brick compound of administration buildings, behind Building 7. This year's crop has been the most plentiful, veterans say. There are flourishing string bean, zucchini, and cherry tomato plants, as well as orchards bearing Macintosh apples. "I get a lot of satisfaction out of it," said Vietnam veteran Bob Freshour, 59, who lives at the VA Center and works in the garden every day. "I find it's interesting, all the plants and watching them grow." YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jk0U-_Gpko
(Shared by Marina Loni.)

TALMAR
TALMAR, Inc. A non-profit company that deals with individuals with disabilites of all ages. YouTube slideshow and audio: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKLbvCLfvzc (Shared by Marina Loni.)

Organic Garden Therapy
A community garden gets a fresh planting just after the harvest - all organic and all delicious! Volunteers from around the Kroc Center help plant, water, weed and cultivate throughout the growing seasons; young people participate in the work and experience the beauty of nature and the joy of growing organic. YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMsGfgq2Tss (Shared by Marina Loni.)

Farm of Life (Farma Życia) - Autism (Poland)
Foundation Community of Hope has set up a Social Enterprise called Farm of Life in Więckowice, Krakow, Poland. In this Social Enterprise adult autistic people are employed. This enterprise is aimed at picking fruits and vegetables and afterwards selling those products gathered on their ecological farm as well as selling their own preserves. Both packages and labels are going to be produced for mentioned products. Employers on Farm of Life are working on Ecological farm as well as in workshops: household (at the same time food processing plant) and production of packages.
This unique project is very valuable to the society as it allow autistic people to become both part of the society and labour market. It has got also an ecological value.
For more information visit Farm of Life website: www.farma.org.pl. YouTube video (in Polish, but really interesting to watch) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LgLr9_ufo (Shared by Marina Loni.)

Projects of Bavo Europoort (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Dutch video item on treatment of psychiatric clients through green care projects. One example is the cooperation between Bavo Europoort and the national landscape preservation organisation Natuurmonumenten on the island Tiengemeten. Video link: http://www.zorgenwelzijn.tv/films/zorgboerderij.wmv (in Dutch). (Shared by Leen Vreugdenhil.)