Terra d’orto has in hand a green area (a former farm) inside the female residential centre for mental disabilities. Thanks to all this green space at disposal with also some already built constructions as the greenhouse, we started to cultivate with the hosted women a piece of land and doing activities in the greenhouse.
Objectives
Materials
Implementation
Evaluation
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To satisfy the needs of disabled people and generally the needs of the external public.
The position of the garden (the countryside in the city)
The initiatives already done have generated an increase of requests or new projects
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Improved access to the green areas but also to organisation.
Little interest from the public administration
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Little public funds
No legislative framework that support social agriculture
No recognition from the national health system of the therapeutic value of gardening activities.
Tips
Aims
- Through gardening disabled people and normally gifted people can interweave social relationships that favour integration
- To educate to the respect of the environment and to the sustainable use of the land
Outcomes
The high therapeutic impact of the Horticultural therapy for people with mental and physical disabilities.
The activities in a greenhouse have the advantage of a work in a safety and controlled environment, not very wearisome (possibility to work at a stand and not bend) and accessible also in case of bad weather.
