Proximity to plants, animals, and the landscape can benefit the mentally disabled, psychiatric patients, people with learning disabilities, the chronically depressed, the overworked, the elderly, even criminals. As European farming tends towards multifunctionality, "green care farms" are cropping up all over the place.
包括動物、植物、地景等都可以運用來照顧身心狀態不佳者，如精神病患、智能障礙者、學習障礙者、憂鬱、過勞者、老人、罪犯等。