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Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land
After seeing the farmer mental health crisis up close, Kaila Anderson developed new treatment techniques based on growers’ deep connection to the land
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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The LandLogic Model℠
The LandLogic Model℠ combines proven CBT skills with land-based interventions to help professionals build rapport with farmers.
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April 11, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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February 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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"She has found that crisis-line staffers, doctors and therapists in farm country often don’t have the cultural training to recognize the signs of emotional stress unique to farmers.

She wanted to explore an emerging idea in psychology that farmer stress is deeply intertwined with the land."
She used this idea to create the LandLogic Model, a new way to train healthcare providers that uses farmers’ relationship to their land to identify and treat depression, anxiety and other emotional issues within a notoriously hard-to-reach population. Operating in areas that typically don’t have enough mental health professionals, she’s trying to get family doctors, crisis hotline staffers, county health workers, pharmacists and others to recognize what it can mean when a farmer says “I can’t afford to feed my cows,” or “The sorghum crop just failed” – statements that are often about much more than financial stress.
April 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Kansas social worker Kaila Anderson knew the mental health challenges farmers face. But when she found that therapists and doctors in farm country often don’t have the cultural training to recognize the signs of emotional stress unique to farmers, she set out to fill that gap by creating LandLogic.
April 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"The LandLogic Model: a new way to train healthcare providers that uses farmers’ relationship to their land to identify and treat depression, anxiety and other emotional issues within a notoriously hard-to-reach population."
story be Dean Kuipers @theguardian.com
Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land
After seeing the farmer mental health crisis up close, Kaila Anderson developed new treatment techniques based on growers’ deep connection to the land
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 11:53 AM
ken-frets.bsky.social
Really interesting, timely article about developing tools to help farming-specific mental health challenges. I had not heard of LandLogic before, but I’m going to explore it - here in CT, they’ve started to talk more about mental health among farmers, and the specific, unspoken stigma faced.
Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land
After seeing the farmer mental health crisis up close, Kaila Anderson developed new treatment techniques based on growers’ deep connection to the land
www.theguardian.com
August 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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I love this section so much:
Kirsten Wulfsberg, a licensed counselor in Chaffee county in central Colorado who has taken the LandLogic training, shows how a therapist can create interventions using the farm itself as a tool. In her job with the Colorado AgrAbility Project, part of a nationwide network helping farmers overcome physical and mental issues, she had one client who repeatedly told her that he was stuck in a rut. “So I told him to go sit in a rut,” Wulfsberg said. She told him to find a ravine on his farm and sit there. As he sat there, he watched birds and other animals go in and out of it. Some of them climbed straight up the sides of the ravine, and others found routes that were less steep. He eventually recognized that he tended to take the harder routes in his life. This intervention showed him that he actually had options – that maybe he wasn’t so stuck. “Ranchers and farmers don’t spend a whole lot of time talking about their emotions,” Wulfsberg said. “[This approach] gives them a language that’s non-threatening, a form of communication that they didn’t have before.”
April 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Exciting developments are underway in Colorado as state agencies announce funding for rural health initiatives and support for the upcoming summit!

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State agencies brief working group on rural‑health equity, BHA training funds and legislative report planning
Colorado Department of Agriculture and Behavioral Health Administration staff told the working group about funding to support summit attendance, a fall legislative report in draft, CDPHE’s July rural health equity report and a $33,000 BHA training allocation (including $15,000 for LandLogic and $18,000 for provider training).
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September 2, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Delta Health Hospital is revolutionizing mental health support for farmers with a groundbreaking program that has already seen over 4,460 patient visits!

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Delta Health Hospital describes integrated behavioral-health services tailored to farming communities
Delta Health Hospital said its integrated primary-care behavioral-health program now includes four clinicians across four clinics, LandLogic training for clinicians, an inpatient peer crisis team, and 4,460 visits in the prior year (4,180 year-to-date). Presenters highlighted outreach for farmers, referral pathways, and local partnerships including Rocky Mountain Health Plans.
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August 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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Farmers face high suicide rates. #LandLogic trains therapists to use maps, gloves & ag routines to spot emotional distress and support healing.

#FarmMentalHealth #LandLogic #RuralWellness #ToxicGrit #BarbedWireThinking #AgStrong

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October 15, 2025 at 11:15 PM
bettinaanderson.bsky.social
This LandLogic model and how it can be applied to help rural people in distress is a compelling read…https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/10/farmers-mental-health-crisis-trump?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Farmers face one of the highest rates of suicide. This social worker believes the solution is buried in their land
After seeing the farmer mental health crisis up close, Kaila Anderson developed new treatment techniques based on growers’ deep connection to the land
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
thefern.org
In FERN's latest story, a collaboration with The Guardian, reporter Dean Kuipers explores the LandLogic model, an innovative approach to therapy for farmers — a model that uses the land as an instrument for healing. Link below.
April 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM