The Hatton Center is fully equipped and it opened in January 2011  and is now starting to serve our needs.   A special thank you to all that made this happen !!!

The Hatton Center houses day activities for resident and day participants.  Evenings and weekends are being used for special events,  and we hope to soon start offering conferences, and workshops for training parents and professional. For more details about the Hatton Center please see the menu on the left : The Hatton Center.

Therapeutic Gardening Program

The greenhouses were completed last fall, and now we are in the process of planting seeds!  Many thanks to all the GE volunteers for all they did!  This project turned out to be a lot of work, especially in the hot weather.  Special thanks to Melanie Moon for the food, Dave Wilson for his leadership, and to Mike Brinck, Jim Wilson and Sue Wilson for all the hard work they also put into making this project a success!  The greenhouses will be a key part of our farm going forward.  We are excited they are up so we can start filling them with raised planting beds for our farmers to plant next season. We were able to purchase these two greenhouses thanks to a grant from the Helen Steiner Rice fund. Our next task is to equip these greenhouses with raised beds, planting benches etc. so that we will be ready to start plants  at the end of January.

Physical Fitness Equipment

A special thank you to Commercial Fitness Solutions in Moraine, OH who generously donated Fitness equiment to Safe Haven Farms :  Two treadmills, two elliptical machines, an exercise bike and a stairmaster.  A wonderful addition for our community. 

Therapeutic Swimming Program

During cold weather our farmers are using the local YMCA.   When we have hot weather on the farm they can also use  our above ground outdoor pool. 

Meet our animal residents!

Lucado, Starbucks, Otis and Ray  who are alpacas.  They were generously donated by Julie Bodette of Sunny Meade Alpacas.  Our farmers  enjoying feeding, petting and being walked by them! We also hav three  adorable goats to keep the alpacas company.  In addition  we have one very friendly chicken, several cats and Honey, a black-lab/great dane mix. 

 A brief history of the beginings of Safe Haven Farms (2009-2010):

1) October 14, 2009 - Safe Haven Farms became a reality 

After months of effort to re-zone the property and plan the site, we finally closed on the purchase of a 60-acre farm in Madison Twp.  The property is the perfect site for Safe Haven, consisting of roughly 30 acres of pasture and 30 wooded acres.  An existing farm house was converted to office space, and a large barn is perfect for our animal and therapeutic riding needs. 

2)  May 19, 2010 - Safe Haven opened on this date!

Between Oct 2009 and May 2010, four residential homes were built, the farm house was converted into an administration building, and a service provider was hired and trained: RMS Spectrum. The first residents  moved in to house #110 and that was soon followed by house 120, 130 and by the end of the summer, house #140. Each house has four residents.

All four houses are now fully occupied.  This was an exciting time for all of us as we saw our long sought dream become a reality!  This would not have happened without the focused dedication of many people.  Thanks to all of you!