If children learn by example, then the Baerwolf sisters are model students. For years, their father, James, and Uncle Robert—co-owners of Sassy Cow Creamery in Columbus, Wisconsin—have donated milk to a nearby food bank. So when the coronavirus pandemic hit, Taylor, 18, Faith, 16, and Anika, 14, couldn’t help but think of their neighbors who didn’t have enough to eat and drink.
News reports showed farmers dumping milk into fields because their usual orders from schools and businesses had dried up, while the cows kept producing milk as usual. As wasteful as it seemed, that milk was raw, not pasteurized, so it couldn’t simply be donated. But Sassy Cow Creamery, located on 1,700 acres between Madison and Milwaukee, pasteurizes and bottles its own milk.
The sisters had an idea: set…
