The SOFIA preparatory project co-ordinated activity at a transnational level to identify best practice, established an evidence base of health and wellbeing impacts on individuals by using sensor technology to collect information, and considered a toolkit to assist remote and rural farms and crofts to make Social Farming viable by measuring the wider employment and community impacts.
Projected key outcomes
- develop technology which will improve the uptake of care farming
- develop technology which will demonstrate health gains from care farming
- provide a toolkit which will promote innovative service delivery in remote and rural areas