Dairy Farms & Creameries near Bel Air, MD

Bel Air

Broom's Bloom Dairy sits on a Bel Air, Maryland farm dating to the early 1700s, now supporting the ninth generation of the Dallam family, who began milking 65 cows in 1997. The farm store dips old-fashioned ice cream made on-site (over 100 flavors created), sells its own milk, artisan cheddar, and country pork sausage, and stocks Harford County lamb, beef, poultry, free-range eggs, local honey, and seasonal produce, with a café serving homemade lunches.

Street

Hawks Hill Creamery makes small-batch cheese and ice cream on its Harford County dairy farm, then sells both at Baltimore spots like Artifact Coffee and Woodberry Kitchen. The farm also runs u-pick season for blackberries, grapes, corn, and pumpkins, and hosts field trips and farm parties for kids. Call (410) 688-7922 to check what's ready to pick before making the drive.

Glen Arm

On Long Green Road in Glen Arm, Prigel Family Creamery is more than ice cream: the family's grass-fed dairy sells its own milk, artisan cheese, grass-fed beef, and pastured pork alongside dozens of ice cream flavors, open seven days a week. Through its Wonderfarm partnership, customers can donate gallons of milk to fill the local food pantry.

Baltimore

Prigel Family Creamery is a grass-fed dairy in Glen Arm, Maryland known for creamy farm-made ice cream — plus milk, cheese, grass-fed beef, and pasture-raised pork from the farm store. Its non-homogenized Cream Line Milk lets the cream rise to the top the old-fashioned way, and the creamery hosts field trips, farm-based learning, and custom cheese plates and ice cream bars for events.

Chestertown

Family-run since 1993, Lockbriar Farms combines a u-pick fruit operation with a farm-made ice cream barn on Worton Road in Chestertown. The ice cream is made on-site from the farm's own dairy alongside the seasonal fruit picking.

Oxford

Meadow Haven Farm in Oxford, Pennsylvania is the Lair family's ninth-generation operation, rotationally grazing beef and dairy cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and chickens on no-till, chemical-free, biodiverse ground all year — no antibiotics, synthetic hormones, or GMOs. The Friday-Saturday farmstand on Ray Mar Road carries their beef, chicken, lamb, multi-colored eggs, and raw milk plus local cheese and honey, with bulk bundles from 10-pound sample boxes to whole lambs shipped frozen or picked up.