Keyes Creamery carries a family dairy dream that began in Harford County in 1950 into a Churchville creamery making weekly small-batch ice cream and fresh cheese. Opened as a storefront in 2013, the family-run business hand-dips its ice cream and works with locally sourced milk, while its products reach farm markets and events across the region. Although the family’s dairy herd ended with the 2023 sale of Mt. Felix Farm, Keyes continues its farming tradition and local food business through the next generation.
Woodside Farm CreamerySince the Mitchell family established Woodside Farm in 1796, it has remained a family-owned agricultural operation; today, Woodside Farm Creamery makes fresh homemade ice cream on the farm using milk from its herd of more than 30 Jersey cows. The farm resumed dairying in 1995 and opened the Creamery in 1998, while continuing to sell farm-fresh eggs and other farm products. Delaware recognized the Mitchell family’s 200th year of family-owned farming in 1996 as part of the state’s Centennial Farm heritage.WILLOW STREET, PA
Clark Farms CreamerySince 1907, the Clark family has farmed in Delhi, New York, and Clark Farms Creamery now turns milk from its own five-generation herd into minimally processed dairy products. Kyle Clark returned home with an agricultural sciences degree in 2018 and reopened the family’s former creamery as a 21st-century dairy lab in 2020, serving the Catskills with fresh milk and hand-packed butter.DELHI, NY
Maplehofe DairyThe Glick family has run Maplehofe Dairy since opening its public store in 1974, building on Aaron and Susie Glick’s dairy-farming roots dating to 1948. The Quarryville business serves its local community with fresh milk processed weekly in its own plant and a farm-store experience that includes hand-dipped ice cream.QUARRYVILLE, PA
Birchrun Hills FarmBirchrun Hills Farm is a first-generation, family-owned dairy farm and on-site creamery where the Miller family turns milk from its herd of about 80 Holstein cows into handcrafted cheese. In northern Chester County, Ken and Sue Miller work alongside their sons Randy and Jesse, growing much of the herd’s feed and aging cheeses in underground caves. The farm has made cheese since 2006 and is known for its award-winning Birchrun Blue, including a first-place Pennsylvania Farm Show honor.CHESTER SPRINGS, PA