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Social Farming!

foroigeadmin April 16, 2018

Foróige participant Patrick O’Brien was a guest speaker at a National Conference on Social Farming in the Emmaus Centre in Swords Co. Dublin on March 23rd. 140 professionals from all over Ireland including delegates from Department of Agriculture and the HSE learnt more about the development of social farming and how it enables those who take part to do ‘ordinary things in ordinary places’.Patrick, an 18 year old from Foroíge’s West Limerick GYDP who took part in a 10 week social farming placement last summer had no previous experience of farming and spoke movingly about his time there.

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