Care in agriculture includes many very different offers. Includes educational activities (teaching on the farm) intended to provide children, young people and also adults with more understanding for nature and agriculture. Examples for this include kindergarten and day care centres on the farm, the project “school on the farm” or animal-related education.

In the areas of care and support (living on the farm), is to offer elderly people and people with disabilities a daily structure and provide them with a joy for life in an environment close to nature. Existing care centres can therefore be given a “green component” using the agricultural sector’s social competencies.

Therapeutic work (health on the farm) is understood as an expansion of, and alternative to, standard forms of prevention or health promotion for people who suffer from a bodily, emotional, cognitive or social deficit, as well as the rehabilitation of people who suffered a serious accident or illness. Animal or garden therapy has been proven to be a successful method in this area. Contact to nature and animals helps to improve the mental, bodily and social well-being of  these people.

The area of social work (work on the farm) gives useful employment opportunities in the agriculture sector to people who have been looking for work for a long period of time or those with disa-
bilities. This can help these people to re-enter the workplace. This area mainly deals with giving people self-confidence and social recognition, independent of their performance.