\n \u201cUnfortunately, things hit a bad patch,\u201d Pip said, \u201cand I had to lose everything.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cNot being one to run to the doctor,\u201d though, she had to work through her resulting mental health issues alone.\n<\/p>\n
\n Pip, in her 60s, who currently lives in Weymouth, said: \u201cFarmers are notorious for wanting to keep battling on. They don\u2019t like putting their hands up and saying \u2018I\u2019ve got a problem\u2019.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n As a result of her experience, she is seeking to open a \u201cworking wellbeing farm\u201d near Bridgwater in Somerset.\n<\/p>\n
\n Merry Moos Farm Project, a non-profit community interest company, would provide outdoor activities for a variety of clients, from adults with serious learning and physical difficulties, to those suffering from stress, burnout and social isolation.\n<\/p>\n
\n Activities would include handling livestock, gardening, picking and growing crops, and attending craft workshops.\n<\/p>\n
\n Pip said: \u201cThere is very limited capacity in the NHS to help people who are going through wellbeing issues, and an outdoor environment is the best thing for them since sliced bread.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cMental health is not talked about enough; it is still this taboo. I\u2019ve only just started to become comfortable in talking about my own problems, but that\u2019s because of the way mental health is viewed.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIf somebody walks down the road with their arm in a plaster, you know they\u2019ve done something to their arm. But you cannot put a plaster on somebody\u2019s brain. It doesn\u2019t work like that.\n<\/p>\n
\n Pip wants to “reconnect” people with nature to benefit their wellbeing. (Image: Pip Langdown)\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cAt Merry Moos, we would treat everybody as individuals. They\u2019d come along and see what they wanted to do every morning. If they wanted, they could go out and work with the horses. Or they could just go and sit in the wildlife area.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Merry Moos would give people \u201cthe tools and the environment to try and get them back on the right track.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Pip is still seeking funding to get the project over the line, which includes raising funds through GoFundMe<\/a> and Crowdfunder<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n \n She added: \u201cI strongly believe that there are people out there, and if they get to know what we do, we could get the doors of this project open and assist a lot of people.\n<\/p>\n \n \u201cAt its heart, the idea is actually very simple: it\u2019s about reconnecting people with nature. That\u2019s the kind of structure that Merry Moos would be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cUnfortunately, things hit a bad patch,\u201d Pip said, \u201cand I had to lose everything.\u201d \u201cNot being one to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-539882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}