Support for Care Farming Through the Rural Development Programme for England

Care farming is a working ‘generic’ term to describe a form of agricultural diversification that also recompenses community and other productive land-managing organisations for the services they provide. Care farming is a partnership between the farmer or landowner, those who benefit from involvement, and the care team. 

View the final report.

• View the outline of the project
• Read the timeline of the project

Read/ download some case studies

 The purpose of this project was to identify practical examples of where RDPE funding has been used to support care farmers expand and diversify their business.

• The project identifed existing support for care farming through RDPE, thus identify current examples, projects and practices that can be share.
• It raises awareness of the current support available through case studies that will highlight examples of care farms that have received RDPE support.
• The project has shared the cases studies and other relevant information with the EN RD thematic working group on Social Farming.

If you have any information about care farming activity that is happening in your region then we would like to hear from you. The project is focused on the following regions North West, North East, West Midlands, East of England, South West and Yorkshire and Humber.

The National Care Farming Initiative is a partnership of four organisations – Harper Adams University College, The Arthur Rank Centre, The Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens and the University of Essex.

The NCFI website has more information on care farming in the UK and the work of the NCFI.