Leitrim Integrated Development Company has been announced as one of four successful tenderers under the 2025 Social Farming Network.
Funding of €900,000 is being made available across four years to support the practice of social farming at Leitrim Development Company.
A social farming programme would offer, on a voluntary basis, farming and horticultural participation in a farming environment to people who avail of therapeutic day-support services.
Brian Smyth, Social Farming National Project Manager says the practice has a wide-ranging benefits: