Welcome to
Meaford Green Care Farm
Empowering People with Dementia
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Opening summer of 2025
Location: Meaford is a municipality in Grey County, Ontario
On the top of Scotch Mountain in Meaford, ON, our dream for a care farm began when we read an article about Rebekah Churchyard and her hard work in starting the first care farm in Canada for people with dementia. She named it Green Care Farms and has been operating successfully now for three years. She and her team have inspired us to use her model on our farm.
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We are John and Jessica Zufferli. We bought our farm in Meaford seven years ago.
We fell in love with our farm the minute we drove up the lane. What was also immediately apparent was that we needed to find a way to reach out to people who might benefit from sharing in the beauty of this property.
The combination of losing John’s mother to dementia, learning about Rebekah’s experience, and our own retirement, crystallized our desire to share this farm by developing a green care farm for people with dementia in our community.
Left/Top: John and his mom, Joanne many years ago in her beloved backyard.
Right/Bottom: John and Joanne in her later stages of dementia.
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Vegetables and Sensory Garden
