Care farming

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Care farming is the use of farming practices for the stated purpose of providing or promoting healing, mental health, social, or educational care services.^{[1][2][non-primary source needed]} Convicts may also be required to spend time at care farms.^[3] Care farms may provide supervised, structured programs of farming-related activities, including animal husbandry, crop and vegetable production and woodland management.^{[4][non-primary source needed]}