This is the website of the International Community of Practice – Farming for Health. We are an international group of researchers and practitioners in the field of Green Care, Health Farms and other initiatives concerning special care in green environments.
What we do
We are working, researching and meeting yearly to enhance to scientific and practical knowledge of Care Farming in general and special themes in particular. The interdisciplinary approach works and teaches us to be specific about our research (outcomes) and using the knowledge from practice. We also inspire each other to keep working in our own countries and make others as enthusiastic as we are.
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International CoP Conference
Since 2004 we started to meet in workshops and inspiring meetings. The first two years we organized our meetings in The Netherlands since the initiative was started by Stichting Omslag, Steunpunt Landbouw & Zorg and the Wageningen University. In 2006 we got together in Stavanger, Norway. In 2007, we had a meeting in Ghent, Belgium. Our latest meeting was in Pisa, Italy in 2009. Our meeting for 2011 in the United Kingdom was cancelled, unfortunately, but we hope to be organizing a conference in spring 2012.
Farming for Health online
In the meantime we try to stay in contact with each other via our mailing list, but also various social media are used, such as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr and individual weblogs.
If you want to stay updated, please join this Community of Practice and feel welcome to link up with us online. See some options in the menu How to connect, in the top right sidebare on this website.
Membership
The Community is already joined by members from over 22 European countries, as well as members from North America, Asia and Africa. We hope to grow further, but also stronger in the coming years. If you want to join this community, please contact us. (Temporarily via dorineruter@gmail.com. After we indicated our community was ‘born’ in 2004, Google thinks we are underaged and blocks our gmail address… Hope to get it back soon!).
Photograph by: Massimo Vollaro
Updates
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Photograph by: Massimo Vollaro
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