The Significance of Green-space in City-suburbs and its Use in the Context of Welfare, Witnessed in the Foundation and Development of the ''Minuma-Tanbo Welfare-Farm'',Saitama Prefecture.

Recently,the health enhancement and relaxation effect of the activities such as farming or basking in the woods have been paid much attention to. In today's rapidly aging society of Japan, preventive medicine for healthy people has gained importance in addition to the conventional treatments and rehabilitations. Therefore, it is crucial to discover use for the green space in the community as a new stage for health promotion, and to vitalize the citizen activities that are to operate and manage such an institution. In this study, we have placed a focus on the ''Minuma-Tanbo Welfare-Farm'' where preservation of city-suburb's green and gardening activities of disabled people are integrated in one. Through participative observation, hearing survey, and document research, we have made a model of its management system by categorizing its 20-year history of development into 3 different stages. As a result, it has become clear that not only combining of the welfare and green-preservation activities in the local community lessen the burdens of the welfare organizations, but it also makes possible the cultivation of human resources that are difficult to come across in an ordinary welfare environment, and the substantiation of diverse activities.