Secretary Bartenfelder to Visit Creameries on Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail: South Mountain Creamery, Misty Meadow Creamery

ANNAPOLIS, MD – Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder and Deputy Secretary Jim Eichhorst will visit two creameries featured on the 2016 Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail on July 13 in Frederick and Washington counties. The 2016 Ice Cream Trail includes nine dairy farms that produce and sell ice cream directly to consumers right on the farm.

The 2016 Ice Cream Trailblazer passport is available at any of the creameries (or online at www.marylandsbest.net. Anyone who completes their Ice Cream Trail passport by visiting every stop on the trail and answering a question from each creamery between May 20 and Sept. 23 will have their passport entered into a drawing to be named the 2016 Ice Cream Trail Blazer.

Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail includes the following nine 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 (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)
9. Woodbourne Creamery at Rock Hill Orchard (Montgomery County)

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What: Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder and Deputy Secretary Jim Eichhorst to visit two farm-based creameries on the 2016 Maryland Ice Cream Trail.

When: Wednesday, July 13

Where: 2:00 – 2:30 p.m. – South Mountain Creamery; 8305 Bolivar Rd, Middletown, MD 21769
3:30 p.m. – 4 p.m. – Misty Meadow Farm Creamery; 14325 Misty Meadow Rd, Smithsburg, MD 21783

Media interested in attending the events should RSVP to Jason Schellhardt at jason.schellhardt@maryland.gov or 410-841-5744.

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