2014 Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail to Officially Open May 19

ANNAPOLIS, MD –Maryland Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance and Deputy Secretary Mary Ellen Setting will officially open the 2014 Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail on May 19 at South Mountain Creamery in Middletown (Frederick County) and urge Marylanders to visit at least some of the stops on the trail during the Memorial Day weekend. Anyone who completes their Ice Cream Trail passport by visiting every stop on the trail and answering a question from each creamery between May 19 and Sept. 15 will have their passport entered into a drawing to be named the 2014 Ice Cream Trail Blazer.

The 2014 Ice Cream Trail includes eight dairy farms that produce and sell ice cream directly to consumers right on the farm.  This year, trail blazers will also have to get the answer to a different dairy-related question at each creamery and enter the answers on the passport. Residents can pick up an Ice Cream Trailblazer Passport at any of the farm creameries (or download it online at w

Kilby Cream in Cecil County  (Photo by Edwin Remsberg)

ww.marylandsbest.net) after May 19. The person selected as the 2014 Trail Blazer will win a $50 gift certificate to their favorite creamery and other prizes.

 WHAT: The Official Opening of the 2014 Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail

 Where: Mon., May 19, at 11:30 a.m. at South Mountain Creamery, 8305 Bolivar Rd, Middletown, MD 21769.

 WHO: Agriculture Secretary Buddy Hance and Deputy Secretary Mary Ellen Setting will officially unveil the Ice Cream Passports and enjoy the first official ice cream scoop on the 2014 Trail Blazer promotion.

Why: The purpose of the Ice Cream Trail is to highlight the important contributions of Maryland’s 496 dairy farms which accounted for $188 million in sales in 2012; and to increase the public’s general understanding of dairy farming by encouraging them to visit a farm and see what dairy farming is really like, all while enjoying delicious, locally produced ice cream.

Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail includes the following eight farms:

1. Broom’s Bloom Dairy (Harford County)
2. Chesapeake Bay Farms (Worcester County – now two locations)
3. Keyes Creamery (Harford County)
4. Kilby Cream in Rising Sun (Cecil County)
5. Misty Meadows Farm Creamery (Washington County)
6. Prigel Family Creamery (Baltimore County)
7. Rocky Point Creamery (Frederick County)
8. South Mountain Creamery (Frederick County)

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