Brooke Corridoni’s students at Susquehanna Waldorf School have been practicing their writing skills with a pen pal named Jude. The students ask Jude about his life and his friends, and in turn, tell him about their own worlds and their favorite things to do. But Jude needs some help reading the letters, and writing his replies. That’s because Jude is a cow.

The Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit farm animal sanctuary based in Mount Joy and founded in July 2017, is a rescue home to about 80 cows, pigs, chickens, alpaca, horses, goats, sheep, ducks and turkeys — basically, any animal mentioned in “Old MacDonald Had a Farm.” The sanctuary provides shelter and care for local farm animals that have been abused, neglected, abandoned or are disabled or sick. [Read More…]