(western music)
- [Jared] Well, there's no traffic. (laughing)
There's no traffic.
It's peaceful out here. A lot of fresh air.
There's times it's hectic because, you know,
you have your schedule set up and first thing you know,
something breaks down and you gotta work through that,
but that's normal. That's normal human life.
(wind chimes chiming)
- [Joyce] We get to enjoy the smells of nature.
We don't have city smog.
We don't deal with any of that.
So much so, that when you're on the farm
and then you go to town and you see everyone with the masks
and, "Oh yes, there is something else going on in life."
- You forget your mask.
You know, you forget about the,
"Oh yes, I got to have a mask here." You know?
- [Joyce] You just don't think
about those kinds of things as much.
- [Jared] I just love working with nature,
working with animals, and working with the soil.
It's quite gratifying because that animal loves you
and you love that animal.
And in that environment,
they can produce their max quality, quantity.
When they feel that love.
It's a very healthy environment.
They say the more she chews her cud
and the more she lays down,
the more relaxed they are, the more milk they can give.
(car passing by)
(Jared and Joyce laughing)
- We actually went to the same school together.
So, we were acquainted with each other,
but it was at a farm sale where he really asked me.
It blossomed from there. We got married five years later.
- Come on. Let's go.
- [Joyce] For the first eight years,
we farmed our own farm in Pennsylvania
and had four children before we moved west.
- [Jared] It's in our blood. Not just us,
but our grandparents, our great grandparents.
It might even been our great-great-grandparents
were all dairy farmers. So, they come from way back.
We were raised without TV. Raised without radio.
Work was our recreation.
It was ingrained into us to do a good job
at whatever we did.
Put our whole heart into our work
and my children, that's in them too.
(serene music)
- [Joyce] When we moved here,
four of them were already married.
Ten total, there's six married and four at home.
Jessica, Jenny, Jaylen, Joylynn, Justin, Joanna.
That's Joshua, Jared, Jesse, and Jubilee.
(Jared and Joyce chuckling)
- [Jared] Oh, my. It's awesome,
especially among the grandchildren.
We have number 14 on the way, now.
They come in, you know, with their hands up in the air,
yelling PaPa, you know, it's just tremendous.
- [Joyce] I have a very strong family tie.
That's just the most important on this earth, to us.
- [Jared] There's one girl Jubilee, and three boys,
Joshua, Jared, and Jesse are still here, yet.
I try to get out there, around 3:30
and then I have, like, 30 minutes to prep everything up,
sanitize the pipelines,
make sure everything's set up okay.
The main thing is to have a set up that is approved
by the state. You gotta get it certified with the state
and then make sure that they approve of it.
The state will test, like, once a month for coliform.
That tells them how clean our milk is.
We test on the farm also for coliform and E-coli,
and we keep it at zero.
Every milk tank full, we test it.
- Well, or we brought in the cows and we're milking them.
We'll milk them all.
We just feed them all through.
I think we're milking about 43 right now.
Every morning and every evening at four o'clock.
So, we get up at about 3:30, get out here
and we'll do the feeding.
Jesse and Dad usually work at the milking.
- [Jared] We make sure the others are totally clean.
We have a sanitizing soap mix, I use.
You wash the utter off completely and then let it dry.
Once it dries, there's no bacteria there, whatsoever.
(machines shushing)
- Whatever projects you've got
around the farm for the day, we'll work at that.
Then, four o'clock in the evening,
we'll do all the chores, again.
You get used to it after a while.
We still have some times where we get out a little late,
but ya... (laughing)
It's really nice just to be able to work with my family.
Fun to be workin' with my brothers
and doing farming, outdoor stuff.
It's what I like to do, so...
Everybody can work together and do what needs to be done.
- And then, once we're all finished
then we wash everything down,
wash all the pipelines, sanitize all the pipelines.
We do that after each milking.
(chicks cheeping)
- We have about 425 chicks that we're raising
and a flock of about 65 chickens.
If I have extra eggs that the customers don't buy, here,
at the farm, I take them to my little Bisbee market
and sell them there.
This summer, we hope to have eggs
for all of our milk customers.
We'll take eggs with us on all our deliveries.
(picking music)
(patrons conversing)
- We keep coming back because, honestly,
it's the best milk we've found for our family, ever.
It's so creamy. It's full of nutrients.
They are such an amazing family.
They let us, they invited us out to their farm.
We brought the whole family
and they spent hours, like, showing us their animals,
how they bottle and produce the milk.
And we got to, the kids got to play
with their daughter, Jubilee.
It was just, we had such a blast. It was so fun.
Today, I got six half-gallons of milk and their butter.
They just started selling their homemade butter.
So, it's pretty special.
- When we hear others saying how it blesses them,
that just makes it entirely worthwhile, for what we do.
We're blessed.
Hence the Golden Rule Dairy name.
We treat you, we like to treat others
as we are being treated.
- Mom's a good cook.
She makes butter, yogurt, ice cream, tons
of ice cream. We're eating ice cream all the time.
Probably a little spoiled, but yeah, good stuff.
- [Joyce] What's that, there?
- J.
- [Joyce] And that one?
- K.
- Yeah.
- Since we started, we've always prayed
before we bottled the milk.
We also pray that it blesses the people who drink it.
It's a good feeling, you know,
to be making good food for other people.
I think that God's blessing is in the milk, for sure.
- What thrills my heart is to see my boys learn how to get
up at three o'clock in the morning, every morning,
and feel the responsibility to get up
and get the chores done and get them done correctly
and make sure the cows are all fed right.
And sometimes, me as a dad,
I get uptight and my boys say, "Hey, Dad. It's okay."
You know, they helped me out too.
It doesn't go just one way. It's both ways.
I learn a lot from my children.
And the main thing is that we have love for each other.