From cow to cone.
That’s the main criterion for participation in this summer’s 8th annual Scooped: An Ice Cream Trail, according to Lolly Lesher of Way-Har Farm Market, 7701 Bernville Road, Bernville, Berks County, which is one of 51 stops on the trail.
Launched in 2018, Scooped: An Ice Cream Trail is a partnership of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture and its PA Preferred program, Department of Community and Economic Development’s Tourism Office and the Center for Dairy Excellence.
“The ice cream trail is meant to be farmers, like us, businesses that have a farm, milk their own cows and take the ice cream directly to the customers,” Lesher said.
To participate, ice cream aficionados can use their mobile phones and go to visitpa.com/trip/scooped-ice-cream-trail and create a digital passport.
A visit to each farm on the trail is worth 100 points. A commemorative stainless steel tumbler is the reward for accumulating 600 points, and 1,000 points will enter the participant in a chance to win an overnight visit to a Lancaster County farm to experience that “life on the farm.”
The promotion ends Sept. 7.
Meet the other creameries on the trail in neighboring counties:
Berks County
• Way-Har Farm Market, 7701 Bernville Road, Bernville
Chester County
• Bailys Dairy of Pocopson Meadow Farm, 1821 Lenape-Unionville Road, West Chester
• Chester Springs at Milky Way Farm, 521 E. Uwchlan Ave., Chester Springs
• Hangry Bear Creamery: Inspired by Creativity and Fueled by Hunger, 660 E. Cypress St., Suite 101, Kennett Square
Lancaster County
• Fox Meadows Creamery, 2475 West Main St., Ephrata
• Fox Meadows Creamery – Leola, 193 E. Main St., Leola
• Greco’s Italian Ices and Homemade Ice Cream, 9 E. Kleine Lane, Lititz
• Greco’s Italian Ices And Homemade Ice Cream – Landisville, 329 Main St., Unit C, Landisville
• Lapp Valley Farms, 244 Mentzer Road, New Holland
• Lapp Valley Farms Ice Cream – Gordonville, 4040 Old Philadelphia Pike, Gordonville
• The Milkhouse at Oregon Dairy, 2900 Oregon Pike, Lititz
Lebanon County
• Colebrook Crossing, 1550 Mount Wilson Road, Lebanon
• Patches Family Creamery, 201 Fonderwhite Road, Lebanon
Lehigh County
• Batch Microcreamery, 2845 Center Valley Parkway, Suite 604, Center Valley
• Crystal Spring Farm, 3550 Bellview Road, Schnecksville
• Flint Hill Farm Educational Center, 1922 Flint Hill Road, Coopersburg
Montgomery County
• Merrymead Farm, 2222 S. Valley Forge Road, Lansdale
For a complete list of participating farms can be found on the Scooped: An Ice Cream Trail website.
