Barnyard Bash is Friday at Fairfield’s Maasdam Barns

The Fairfield Area Chamber of Commerce invites the public to celebrate the area’s agricultural community at this year’s Barnyard Bash.

The Barnyard Bash will be held on Friday, Sept. 9 at Maasdam Barns on the south side of Fairfield, just south of the Jefferson County Health Center.

Jefferson County Farm Bureau and Agri-Industrial Plastics Company are sponsoring this year’s event, which will last from 4:30-8:30 p.m. with ag-related booths and plenty of activities including a bounce house, tractor-cade, horse-drawn wagon rides, and barrel train rides.

Members of the Maasdam Barns Preservation Committee have planned an evening of demonstrations showing vintage agricultural practices. From 4:30-5:30, members will demonstrate corn shelling and grinding.

The public is also invited to visit the working windmill installed last year and the nearby tank full of goldfish. At another booth, members will be making jump rope by hand.

At 5:30 p.m., Jefferson County Farm Bureau will make a presentation. After the presentation, committee members and volunteers will demonstrate the Louden hay carrier by moving bales of hay into the second story of a barn.

After the Louden hay carrier demonstration, the public will have a second chance to see corn shelling and grinding, and learn about the windmill.

There will be a giant bubble making activity as well as big coloring activity at the Chamber booth. Food will be available at the event for purchase. The Jefferson County Cattlemen's Association and the Jefferson County Pork Producers will have meals available.

Parking is available at the Jefferson County Health Center parking lot; a shuttle service will be available to take event attendees directly to the barns.