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Fiddlin’ Rooster Farm and Bakery near Water Valley offers school kids and the general public an opportunity to learn about farm life while having a whole lot of fun. A visit to this Yalobusha County old-style farm, owned and operated by Doug and Rhonda Webb, is like stepping back in time. You will find here a restored 103-year-old farm house, a weathered twostory barn, a menagerie of farm animals, two ponds stocked with large-mouth bass, a fruit orchard, a corn crop, a vegetable garden and a kitchen garden, just like your grandma and grandpa used to own. But that’s not all … Fiddlin’ Rooster Farm and Bakery also offers learning stations with facts about Mississippi agriculture as well as hands-on experiences with various agricultural commodities. For example, while you learn about the dairy industry, you can shake a container of cream to form butter. While you learn about the corn industry, you can grind corn to form meal. When you are finished, you can make muffins from the meal and slather them with homemade butter. Yum! In addition, you can visit a 6-acre corn maze, ride a cow train, take a hayride, visit a pumpkin patch, shoot a corn cannon, slide down a tall slide out of a hayloft, visit a country store, eat beneath a picnic pavilion, and much, much more. An authentic chuck wagon with antique cooking utensils is parked on the property. This unique learning station represents a great way for visitors to learn about the types of foods Mississippi pioneers ate, the clothes they wore and even how they entertained themselves through music and dance. Doug plays the fiddle during the presentation while Rhonda calls square dance moves that you can’t help but follow.
“We are also passionate about teaching the youth of today about the importance of agriculture to their daily lives.” When you’re done for the day, you can eat a bag lunch at a picnic table beneath the pavilion. The Webbs have also been known to cook for visitors. School kids are invited to visit during the week. On the weekends, it is open to the public.
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