There is a reason, I’ve learned, why they call it the family farm. Family is perhaps the most important part of the Rouse Farm. The kids and adults are around one another all day, and Judy spends as much time with Lyly as she can. I loved watching them walk up the road together after they let the cows out. Lyla is at ease among cows as her mother and grandfather are. Judy work is brutally difficult and relentless but she always finds time for her two daughters.

I’m proud to report that my second “Bedlam Farm Diary: Vol. 2” will be on the Rouse farm, and on Judy and her father Ed. It is wrong that family farms are perishing, and I am eager to show some of what will be lost. I have a ton of editing to do, but I hope to put the video up this coming Monday.