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How the Therapeutic Effects of Cooking Help Residents of a Middlefield Farm Community

How the Therapeutic Effects of Cooking Help Residents of a Middlefield Farm Community

Released Friday, 16th September 2016
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How the Therapeutic Effects of Cooking Help Residents of a Middlefield Farm Community

How the Therapeutic Effects of Cooking Help Residents of a Middlefield Farm Community

How the Therapeutic Effects of Cooking Help Residents of a Middlefield Farm Community

How the Therapeutic Effects of Cooking Help Residents of a Middlefield Farm Community

Friday, 16th September 2016
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Home cooks know how relaxing it can be to putter in the kitchen, but for deeply troubled minds, cooking can be much more than a stress-reliever. In today’s Quick Bite, WKSU’s Vivian Goodman visits a farm in Amish country where the art of cuisine is a form of therapy. We’re in Middlefield on this sunny summer morning at Ohio’s only therapeutic farm community for adults with mental illness. Peaceful surroundings Hopewell 's Program Director Colleen Welder shows us around the farm's 300 serene and sprawling acres. " The first thing you see are the chickens, and they are free range. On the other end of the farm here, there’s pigs and there are sheep.” About 50 adults live and work at Hopewell as a community, and get help for serious mental illness. "Typical diagnoses,” says Welder, “would be schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar depression.” Residents get better here while keeping busy. “We have animals. There’s gardens. Kitchen chores to do. And all of that creates a
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