Therapeutic farming small grants program

What is therapeutic farming?

Therapeutic farms, also known as care farms or social farms, are defined as a combined offering consisting of working farms with embedded agricultural practices (such as horticulture, livestock handling, forestry) alongside the provision of therapeutic mental health support. 

Therapeutic farms are one type of outdoor or green mental health care and are an emerging field of mental health care.

Purpose of the grants program

The Tasmanian Government’s current reform agendas aim to improve integration of the different services in the Tasmanian mental health system to better meet the needs of the population. 

The purpose of the Therapeutic Farming Small Grants Program (the Grants Program) is to strengthen and test the ability of therapeutic farming to be integrated into the Tasmanian mental health system. 

The Grants Program will provide funding for activities that aim to strengthen the use of therapeutic farming in Tasmania. This could include improving community engagement in the design and evaluation of therapeutic farming, establishing partnerships between entities that have key interests in Tasmanian therapeutic farming, or setting up the foundations to pilot a therapeutic farming model in Tasmania. 

Five grants of up to $20,000 will be distributed to successful applicants under the Grants Program in 2024.

Please read the Guidelines below for more information.

Applications are now open. Applications close at 5 pm on Friday, 17 May 2024.

View the Therapeutic Farming Small Grants Program Guidelines 2024

Print and complete the application form

Contact us

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or call 6166 6385.