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                                                                     Hay Rides    Hay Maze







                                                                    100% Grass Fed Grade A Raw Jersey Milk
        The Jersey Barnyard gets all decked out for the fall season.  Free Range Eggs       Grass Fed Beef
         Tour a Real Working                                        Organic Chicken
                                                                    Farmstead Cheese
                                                                    Local Products
            Family Dairy Farm

                                                                                         Morning of Saturday, March 31, 2018
                                                                                              (Always the Saturday of Easter
        By FAITH FRERICHS            is becoming an important deci-                                             Weekend)
           The Jersey Barnyard invites   sion families make every day. The
        everyone to spend some qual-  Jersey Barnyard offers 100 percent
        ity time on its beautiful century-  grass-fed Grade A raw milk, 100
        old dairy farm with family and   percent grass-fed beef, free range
        friends The Jersey Barnyard offers   eggs, farm-raised pork, local honey,      Last Week of September
        guided  or self-guided tours that   organic free-trade coffee, raw milk   through October!
        helps bring you into a glimpse   cheese, and the list keeps growing.
        of what farming life is all about.   These quality products as well as
        This fourth generation farm has   farm related gifts, Texas souve-
        seen feasts and the famines over   nirs, and hand dipped ice cream
        the past 114 years. The family’s   are available in the gift shop.                               Featured In –
        hard work and determination     The Jersey Barnyard offers fun-                                 Texas Highways
        has led the farm to diversify and   filled events throughout the year,                      Texas Country Reporter
        reinvent itself in order to sur-  with an Easter Egg Hunt in the   The Great Pumpkin Run – 5K   Longhorn Network – “Sam
        vive ever-changing demands.  spring and a pumpkin patch in the   Nov. 11, 2017                 Out of the City”
           While at The Jersey Barnyard,   fall. Visit The Jersey Barnyard web-                       Cowboys & Indians
        take a deep breath, relax and take   site for more information on the
        it all in. Guinea fowl bring smiles   dates and times. Follow The Jersey                      Successful Farming
        and laughs at their antics. Precious   Barnyard on FaceBook, Instagram
        chickens, pigs, goats, turkeys and   or the website, www.texasjersey.com.
        more await visitors. Baby Jersey   Whether La Grange is your
        calves love new people. You can   hometown or you are just passing
        even hand bottle feed them milk.   through, don’t miss an oppor-
        But the best treat for visitors is a   tunity to go on an educational
        hayride through the rolling hills   tour of the farm or just come out   www.texasjersey.com .texasjersey.com
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        of the farm, up to the dairy, and   and visit the store. The Jersey
        hand-milk the gentle dairy cows.   Barnyard doesn’t feed the world,   Email - barnyard@cvctx.com barnyard@cvctx.com
                                                                          979-249-3406
           The farm’s offerings don’t stop   just close friends and neighbors.
        there. Knowing your food source


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