Irish-based farmers’ experience of facilitating social farming

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dc.contributor.authorGorman, Eoinen
dc.contributor.authorKingston, Sallyen
dc.contributor.authorGiles, Nicolaen
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-13T08:54:23Z
dc.date.available2025-05-13T08:54:23Z
dc.date.issued2025en
dc.description.abstractPurpose: Social farming is the use of commercial farms and agricultural landscapes to promote mental and physical health for service users through ordinary farming activities. While previous research has focused on the service user, the farmer’s perspective and well-being has not been extensively considered in the research. The purpose of this study was to explore Irish-based farmer's experiences of social farming. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative-descriptive approach was used to explore the form, function and meaning of facilitating social farming. Purposive sampling was used for recruitment. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews with ten social farmers. Findings: Four themes emerged from the interviews: characteristics of the farm and farmer, connection, mutually beneficial farming and challenges of social farming. Originality/value: This study sheds light on the experience of occupational rejuvenation that occurs for the farmer and their family through engagement in social farming, seen through their renewed passion for farming and the focus on mundane occupations. This highlights how the occupation of facilitating social farming can increase the well-being of those involved in the occupation.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationGorman, E., Kingston, S. and Giles, N. (2025) 'Irish-based farmers’ experience of facilitating social farming', Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy, 53(1), pp.20-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOT-08-2024-0035en
dc.identifier.doi10.1108/IJOT-08-2024-0035en
dc.identifier.issn7918437en
dc.identifier.issued1
dc.identifier.journaltitleIrish Journal of Occupational Therapyen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17447
dc.identifier.volume53
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEmerald Publishingen
dc.rights© 2025, Eoin Gorman, Sally Kingston and Nicola Giles. Published in Irish Journal of Occupational Therapy. Published by Emerald Publishing Limited. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. The full terms of this licence may be seen at http:// creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcodeen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectFarmersen
dc.subjectMental healthen
dc.subjectOccupational scienceen
dc.subjectSocial farmingen
dc.titleIrish-based farmers’ experience of facilitating social farmingen
dc.typeArticle (peer reviewed)en
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