Dairy Farms & Creameries near Churchville, 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.

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.

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.

UDairy Creamery is run by University of Delaware students in Newark, using milk straight from the university's own dairy herd. Open since 2011, the creamery makes more than 34 ice cream flavors year-round along with farmstead cheese and custom cakes. Find scoops at the Creamery Café on Main Street or the flagship shop near South College Avenue, both a short walk from campus.

Newark

The UDairy Creamery Café serves favorites like ice cream, waffle cones and cheese. Additionally, the café offers a full coffee drink menu and light fare, including sandwiches made with UDairy Creamery cheese. This new location increases the number of intern opportunities available to UD students.