{"id":23330,"date":"2019-05-24T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=23330"},"modified":"2019-05-24T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T19:44:37","slug":"governor-hogan-secretary-bartenfelder-kick-off-2019-marylands-best-ice-cream-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2019\/05\/24\/governor-hogan-secretary-bartenfelder-kick-off-2019-marylands-best-ice-cream-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Hogan, Secretary Bartenfelder Kick Off 2019 Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kick-off Event at Chesapeake Bay Farms; Trail Season Opens May 25<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 Governor Larry Hogan and Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder kicked off the 2019 season of the Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail today at Chesapeake Bay Farms in Berlin, Md. The Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail officially begins on May 25 and will run through September 23. Now in its seventh year, the trail has become increasingly popular drawing participants from around the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaryland is home to outstanding dairy operations that provide high-quality, local dairy products to millions of people throughout the region,” said Governor Hogan. \u201cThe Maryland’s Best Ice Cream Trail is a great opportunity for our citizens to learn more about dairy farming. By visiting one of the nine dairies on the Ice Cream Trail, you are helping support Maryland dairy farmers, local producers, and rural communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat better way to recognize our state\u2019s hard working dairy farmers than by visiting a working Maryland dairy farm and enjoying locally-produced ice cream,\u201d said Secretary Bartenfelder. \u201cYear after year, the Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail continues to grow and educate Marylanders about the important role dairy farming plays in our state\u2019s agriculture industry and the economy. I encourage all Marylanders and those visiting our great state to participate in this year\u2019s Ice Cream Trail.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a02019 Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail<\/a>\u00a0is made up of nine Maryland dairies that produce and sell their ice cream directly to consumers. The trail stretches more than 290 miles from Worcester County in the east to Washington County in the west. The 2019 Ice Cream Trail dairies are: Prigel Family Creamery (Baltimore), Kilby Cream (Cecil), South Mountain Creamery (Frederick), Rocky Point Creamery (Frederick), Broom\u2019s Bloom Dairy (Harford), Keyes Creamery (Harford), Woodbourne Creamery at Rock Hill Orchard (Montgomery), Misty Meadow Farm Creamery (Washington), and Chesapeake Bay Farms (Worcester).<\/p>\n

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The purpose of the trail is to increase the public\u2019s understanding of dairy farming and to highlight the important contributions of Maryland\u2019s 355 dairy farms, which accounted for more than $174 million in sales according to the USDA\u2019s 2017 Census of Agriculture.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Ice Cream Trail Passport<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0available for download at\u00a0MarylandsBest.net<\/a>.\u00a0Printed copies will also be available at each of the nine creameries throughout the season. Participants should use the passport to keep track of their progress by answering a specific dairy question and receiving a stamp at each creamery on the trail between May 25 and September 23.<\/p>\n

Once completed, participants should mail the passport by September 30 to Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream – Maryland Department of Agriculture,\u00a050 Harry S. Truman Parkway Annapolis, MD 21401<\/a>, where it will be entered in a drawing. One lucky winner will be named the 2019 Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail Blazer. The grand prize package will include a $50 gift certificate to the winner\u2019s favorite creamery; a DVD set of the latest season of Maryland Public Television\u2019s\u00a0Maryland Farm and Harvest;<\/em>\u00a0a copy of Lucie Snodgrass\u2019\u00a0Dishing Up Maryland<\/em>\u00a0cookbook; and, of course, ultimate bragging rights\u00a0(No purchase necessary)<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail is a joint promotion supported by the Maryland Department of Agriculture and the American Dairy Association North East. To learn more about dairy farming and the critical role it plays in our region, visit americandairy.com.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Kick-off Event at Chesapeake Bay Farms; Trail Season Opens May 25 ANNAPOLIS, MD\u00a0\u2013 Governor Larry Hogan and Maryland Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder kicked off the 2019 season of the Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail today at Chesapeake Bay Farms in Berlin, Md. The Maryland\u2019s Best Ice Cream Trail officially begins on May 25 and will  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23333,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23330\/revisions\/23333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}