An Anguished Mom Creates a Refuge: Her Farm Helps Others Heal.

"It's hard to describe how horrific it was", says Dorothy Green, of Phoenix, who first traveled to the Carefarm with daughter Sierra Aranda in 2019, five months after Green's 22-year-old son Andrew was killed, beaten to death with a hammer wielded by his husband. AFTER THE HEART-WRENCHING DEATH OF HER NEWBORN DAUGHTER, JOANNE CACCIATORE MADE A SANCTUARY IN ARIZONA WHERE PEOPLE STRUGGLING WITH LOSS CAN COME TO LEARN ABOUT THE POWER OF GRIEF Finding Space to Grieve When the nightmare that transformed her life began, Joanne Cacciatore was lying in a Phoenix hospital bed, excited to catch her first glimpse of her newborn baby girl. Today Cacciatore - along with five fellow grief counselors, three farmhands and a "human-animal connection specialist" - are busy working with those struggling with the murder, suicide or death of a loved one. [Extracted from the article]