'Got the spuds in anyway' thanks to Liam and Shane for the help on their #socialfarming day. They're going to be late but hopefully they'll come along quickly. Some of the activities participants take part in on our working farms throughout the country. #NewOpportunities

Join us on the 29th May anyone interested in Social Farming!! Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway Department of Rural and Community Development Rural Development DAFM Social Farming Ireland 🥕🐄🌾 Blatnaid

University of Galway, Rural Voices Seminar Series: May 2024
Please join us on Wednesday 29th May, from 3pm to 4pm online for our Seminar featuring, Helen Doherty, Social Farming Ireland.
Register via the link:
universityofgalway-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

We had fantastic weather at our first Peer Learning training on Moeran's Farm in Cavan this week, with a great crop of new host farmers, who are looking forward to hosting their first participants!

It was a great day of learning from experienced social farmers & from each other!

#Wednesday Happy to watch the evening #sun set on what has been a busy rewarding day of asking #HelloHowAreYou Hello, How Are You? Mental Health IRL Caroline Brogan MHI Marie Duffy mastodon.ie/@Donegalabu Fergal Fox @Aontas Sonia Rennicks Social Farming Ireland 🥕🐄🌾 National FRC Mental Health Promotion Project FARMRes Project

#HelloHowAreYou Mental Health IRL Delighted to share Social Farming Ireland 🥕🐄🌾 #SocialFarming experience with Caroline Brogan MHI Aine Hurley Ger Walsh HSE Mental Health Engagement and Recovery at Ger Deegan's #FarmLife #inclusion Department of Rural and Community Development HealthyIreland

On Tuesday our Social Farmers completed the final in a series of workshops preparing them to deliver Social Farming with refugees & asylum seekers. The workshop took place at Jubilee Farm who have been delivering this service since 2019. Plenty of learning & a little bit of sun!

Social Farms - based on ordinary working farms - offer great opportunity to use what we have to enhance people's lives, farms are a fabulous option for health and wellbeing support 👩‍🌾

#Hello HowAreYou We are not kidding you having a unique opportunity to say #Hello Social Farming Ireland 🥕🐄🌾 with Ber Whyte ,# Ardagh Mental Health IRL CHO8 Midlands Louth Meath Sonia Rennicks FARMRes Project Caroline Brogan MHI Longford Libraries Longford County Council

Lots of activity on the Shore Farm in Mayo with guys from Praxis Care taking care of the horses and tidying the sheds!

Social farming focuses on people's potential rather than limitations!

Check out our website socialfarmingireland.ie!

Over the past couple of months, we had of training for new social farmers & we are looking forward to them becoming available to welcome social farming participants onto their farms soon!!

Check out a short video highlighting some activities offered on Social Farms!!

📢 LEADER Funding Opening in Co. Leitrim. Please join us at one of our Community Events to find out more about LEADER Funding, details of the types of projects that will be funded, the grant rate/amounts & requirements in order to make an application for funding 🇪🇺

This wk we visited the dairy farm of Bryan & Gail Daniels from Kilkenny who are 2024 Farming for Nature Ambassador nominees. Highlights:
🍃Owl & Bat Boxes
🍃Hedge laying
🍃Red & white 🍀, 50%⬇️in synthetic nitrogen
🍃Protecting rivers
🍃Soy free dairy nuts
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Thanks again to the guys from the Delta Centre Carlow for helping out with the car. Getting ready to start their new placement with Michael and Celine, thanks to the funding from HealthyIreland and CarlowCountyCouncil Best of luck guys

All adults have a right to be safe and to live a life free from harm. We are working to improve safeguarding in health and social care services.

Find out more by watching our animation.

New chicken coop for the ladies made on farm in Co. Carlow with the help from the Wexford boys from Brothers of Charity Services Ireland. #SocialFarming providing meaningful activities for participants on farms throughout the country. #NewOpportunities # #ConnectingPeople # #EnhancingLives

Our Chief Inspector of Social Services, Carol Grogan spoke to attendees about the importance of human rights in the provision of good quality services for people with disabilities.

Shane Keaveney one of our Social Farmers in the West leading the way in suckler farming #Socialfarming Social Farming Ireland 🥕🐄🌾 provides natural inclusive supports for people on ordinary active working farms across the country Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Teagasc Irish Farmers' Association facebook.com/share/p/KccjTg…

Yesterday, we had a fantastic time at the Midlands Autism and Disability Fair in Athlone, sharing the benefits of social farming with visitors! It was heartening to see the enthusiasm and curiosity about inclusive community initiatives!

The Human Rights of ⁦Lisa Domican⁩ - Her Son Liam & Daughter Grace - Cruelly Denied on a Whim - by ⁦HSE Ireland⁩ CHO 6 Disability Services - Refusing Personal Budget Holders to use Services like ⁦Homecaredirect⁩ -HSE In Contempt of Minister ⁦Anne Rabbitte TD⁩