If you spend any time watching television news, you might want to stop.

They show you a teensy tiny picture of the world that just doesn’t represent reality.

That commentary aside, I would like to share some amazing news with you today, courtesy of the New York Times (opens in new Window).

Agriculture students from Vermont Technical College showed up with shovels and began digging. A couple from Hartland, Vt., brought a wheelbarrow and mucked out the barn, and then returned a few days later with a homemade lasagna. A couple from New Hampshire brought grain to feed the surviving cows and wood shavings to line the barn.

“My husband and I, we’re people that give, you know — we’ve never had to be on the receiving end,” said Penny Severance, who runs the farm with her husband, Larry, for its owner, Harland Perley, 81, whose family has had it for a century. “So it’s really hard. We’re so grateful.”

Read the full article here: the New York Times (opens in new Window).