Tales of a Nuffield Scholar with Robin Asquith
About this episode
Robin Asquith discusses his journey and insights from his Nuffield Scholarship on the intersection of farming and social care.
Today on the Tales of a Nuffield Scholar series I had the pleasure of chatting with Robin Asquith 🎙️ Robin is Head of Environment at Camphill Village Trust, working at the intersection of farming, nature and social care, supporting people with learning disabilities, autism and mental health challenges through real farm based environments 🌾 We spoke about Robin’s early life growing up in North Yorkshire, spending time on his grandparents’ soft fruit farm, and how that shaped his understanding of community, people and the land. From training as a plumber to working in commercial horticulture, his path wasn’t linear, but it eventually led him into a role where farming became a tool to support people rather than just produce food 🚜 His Nuffield Scholarship explored the role UK agriculture can play in delivering social care, looking at care farming, green care and how nature based environments can improve wellbeing and independence. His travels took him across Ireland, Scandinavia, mainland Europe and Canada, where he saw everything from dementia care on farms in Norway to rehabilitation programmes in Italy and the Netherlands that use farming and horticulture to support people…
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