From Pennsylvania Farmland to a Carolina Gathering Place
Three generations of feeding neighbors. Pennsylvania, California, and now Carolina.
The Legacy of Maywood Farms
In the rolling fields of Pennsylvania, Thomas Cartwright Bache built something that outlasted him.
He founded Maywood Farms in 1922. By the time the Depression arrived, it had grown to fourteen working farms across more than 1,700 acres, supplying milk, eggs, poultry, and fresh food to families throughout the Wyoming Valley at the exact moment they had the least. T.C. was known for two things: integrity and generosity. In those years, the two were the same thing.
His trucks ran door-to-door routes. The Carter Bache Stores in nearby Nanticoke, PA kept shelves full. Every bottle of milk and every crate of produce carried the same message, which was that somebody around here is looking out for you.
A Family of Farmers
The Bache family story is one of perseverance and purpose. Generations worked the land, milking pure-bred cattle, harvesting feed, and delivering goods door to door with Maywood Farms, Nanticoke, PA painted proudly on every truck.
T.C.'s son, Carter Alexander Bache, grew up in it and carried it forward. Hard work, honesty, and feeding people well.
Those values were passed to Carter's daughter, Lynn Bache Rollé, who brings that same spirit of hospitality and stewardship into everything she touches.
The California Chapter
Decades later and three thousand miles west, the same instinct showed up again.
In 2007, Lynn and her husband Reno Rollé founded BŌKU in Ojai, California, and helped pioneer the organic superfood category before it had a name. Twenty years on, the brand is USDA Organic, Vegan, Kosher, Gluten-Free, and Non-GMO, with a 4.95-star average across nearly 800 customer reviews. Recognized by industry experts. Copied by plenty. Never compromised.
Then came Café Bōku. Lynn & Reno paired fast chargers with a superfood kitchen and watched drivers turn a twenty-minute stop into an hour at the table. It worked, and it worked fast, and it proved the old Maywood idea still holds.
Feed people well and they stay.
From Farm to Community Table
A century after Maywood Farms, the work looks different and it isn't.
The Barn is a restored 1974 landmark on Rothney Avenue in Southern Pines. Built as the JFR Barn and named for its three original owners, it was Moore County's largest restaurant for nearly forty years. It closed in 2012 and sat empty for more than a decade. Lynn and Reno found it in 2024.
Today it holds BOKU Farms Cafe, a modern pizzeria, a full bar, a retail shop, and a gathering space called The Barnyard. The lumber is centuries-old and locally milled. The brick floors and fireplaces were salvaged from nearby farms.
Different tools. Same job. Feed your neighbors, and leave better than you came.
Then and Now
The Heart of Our Work
From one family's farm to another family's table, The Barn exists to feed, connect, and celebrate a community. Just as T.C. Bache did, nearly a century ago.