Rewarding experience 

Care farming for   mental health & well being   

Enabling adults with learning disabilities, SEND, SEM, Mental health issues, depression, anxiety and PTSD to learn new skills and build confidence in a safe nature setting. Our mission is to provide a safe, inclusive, positive, hands on, therapeutic learning environment for adults and young people particularly those who are experiencing high levels of adversity.

We offer a one-to-one service and group sessions throughout the year.                  

 What is Care Farming?

Care farming also know as green care or social farming is the therapeutic use of farming practices. Providing a supervised structured service for social care, rehabilitation or education.

It is a mix of structured nature programmes for people with a defined need to benefit health, social care or education outcomes.

Adults and  young people attend care farms for a number of different reasons. It could be for specialist education, health & social care or health & wellbeing.

Care farming is unique, our service users are able to make meaningful contributions to the day to day running of our farm, through animal care and horticulture. 

Who is a  care farm for?

Frampton Farm provide services for individuals with a defined diagnosis, including adults and children SEND, SEMH, mental health issues, PTSD, children excluded from school and more. Care farming is becoming more widely recognised by health, special education and social care commissioners, GP’S and families.

 Who is a care farm for?

 Frampton Farm provides health and social care and educational providers with an alternative effective option. Reducing the strain on the NHS.

What happens on  the farm? 

Service users form part of a small group of individuals to come together and run Frampton Farm.

Assisting us in feeding and caring for our animals’ chickens, cows, ducks, pigs, sheep, goats and alpacas. Learning animal husbandry, field maintenance, shelter and barn cleaning, taking goats or alpacas for a walk. Jobs on the farm change seasonally so one month you maybe helping us to round up the ewes for pregnancy scanning or you may be assisting with lambing.

Working in our polytunnels and vegetable beds, helping to sow seeds, planting out, weed, moving manure, watering and even harvesting some produce to take home with you.

How care farming  helps

Being outside in nature can improve your mental and physical health. Reducing anxiety and depression, lowering blood pressure and stress hormones, improving your mood. Nature makes you happy and decreases negative emotions.

 Being part of the farm team gives you a responsibility to care for the animals, spend time with us and grow your confidence and self-esteem.

Our  Farm Animals

We have a mixture of animals, on our farm most are pets and rescue animals but we do have some commercial ewes for breeding. Their lambs are mainly sold to other small holders as breeding stock / pets.

We have over 100 animals including various breeds of sheep, pigs, Boer goats, pygmy goats, rescue hens, various other breeds of chickens, alpacas, cow and numerous horses and ponies on the farm.

Most of our animals are used to human interaction and love being hand fed and fussed.

Horticulture   Area

We have an area of the farm which is dedicated to horticulture with a fruit & salad polytunnel, educational polytunnel for students to sow and grow their own produce, a green house, herb garden, vegetable patches and a fruit patch.

Around the farm we have hedgerows and British native trees, and in 2024 we have already started to work alongside service users to plant more trees, including a small apple orchard and plan to create two new garden areas, to include a sensory garden and a wildlife garden in 2025.

Wildlife.

Frampton Farm is a haven for wildlife including foxes, rabbits, badgers and birds. Although many trees have fallen over the years the family are working hard to plant thousands more UK native trees to not only encourage more wildlife but also to help the environment.

 Service users will be playing a big role in rewilding some of our land, by planting more flowers and trees as well as making bird feeders and putting out nesting material for the birds.