Bedeutung landwirtschaftlicher Betriebe zur Förderung der Gesundheit von Kleinkindern aus Sicht der Stakeholder

The stay of children on a farm promotes their health as well as physical and mental development. Studies on needs-based infrastructure, personnel and operative organization to strengthen the health of small children in the context of care or visits to farms are completely lacking in the literature. In order to develop an implementation concept, needs and obstacles with qualitative interviews and the expectations of stakeholders from a farm were asked with the potential analysis of seven people, representatives of day care centres, the municipality and state government as well as the children's university and children's museum. Funding for logistics, pedagogical staff and special infrastructure as well as the expansion into preschool age were deemed necessary. Respondents named a particularly diverse environment with age-appropriate activities as a necessary requirement. The professional training of the pedagogical staff in working with small children on the farm was considered important. To implement farm visits for small children, an educational concept must be developed. Other relevant aspects are the logistics and space concepts as well as further training. The feasibility can be tested on selected pilot farms for health-promoting activities with the plant and proven with best practice examples. This requires the selection and establishment of an infrastructure suitable for small children, the development of training materials for the specialist educational staff and auxiliary staff, their schools and the support of the operational implementation.