As you walk down the main aisle of the barn, midway you will see a ramp to your right that leads up to the MOOseum’s Craft Room.
When this 1930’s long barn was a working barn, this room between the silos was the “kitchen” of the barn. The farmer would fill the silos with corn and plants that would ferment during the summer until it became something called silage, food for the cows during the winter when plants weren’t growing outside. The silage would be shoveled out of the silos into carts that would then be wheeled down the top aisles of the barn, and the food dispersed for each cow.
We have been told that silage is smelly, however the cows loved it! It also seems that farmers had their own recipes for silage just as you might have your own recipe for meatloaf.
