Homeland Creamery
by Liv | Published on May 10th, 2008, 4:49 pm | Food
Went to Homeland Creamery today. We've been going for the last few years and love it. The odd thing is I started going there way before I became ultra concerned as to what I was kind of food I was buying. I'm one of those wacky folks in transition from our consuming normal foods to a more organic way of life. I can't say I'm eating wheat grass and whale urine quite yet but I'm getting there. The eggs we buy are organic, and we buy a lot of our milk, beef, and other products from places like Homeland Creamery who don't use hormones or alien abducted cows.
Ironically while we were there our Doctor showed up. Shannon remarks on the way home how her recent test of triglycerides were high, and now she couldn't argue some excuse as she had been caught by her doctor eating homeland creamery's ice-cream. I suppose there are worst places to be caught, like the all-you-can-eat fried chicken buffet, and it's actually a compliment to a healthy way of life when you realize Happy Cows don't really come from California- they come from North Carolina.
Homeland Creamery to the uninitiated is sort of a treat. It's in the middle of no where down 421 south near the tiny towns of Climax and Julian. It's a real world working farm with cows, milking equipment, straw chewing farmers and their tractors. The kids got the grand tour as apart of a school field trip, and reported back that each cow has RF microchip technology to track milkings and produce the perfect product for the creamery's milk and ice-cream products. So in the middle of the Bowman's farm the family assembled a small inviting ice-cream store which is somewhat out of place in the seemingly vast fields of golden flowers and grazing cows. Inside they sell cheese (from another farm), eggs, milks (white and chocolate), beef and of course Ice cream.
Shannon's favorite is their almond-pecan, and I'm a bit partial to their strawberry in lieu of the now defunct chocolate milk shake which they no longer make any longer with vanilla ice-cream and chocolate syrup (they still do it with chocolate.) **Note to the Bowman's.... I'd gladly pay the extra cost.... Bring it back!!!
A nice shaded tree and sitting area outside with a few animals for the kids to watch makes a nice unique weekend 10 minute adventure from Greensboro. Watch out for Tripod the 3 legged goat (sheep?) who loves to urinate on people, and the 2 dogs that seemingly play fetch with anything. (Including small SUVs.)
If you're on a budget your first trip definitely take home some chocolate milk, and if possible their beef. Absolutely unbelievable, is the only words to describe the food you can buy off the Bowman's farm.
In the past they've also done corn maizes and haunted trails. If you can't make it down to Homeland Creamery several local businesses in Greensboro carry their milk such as Earth Fare on Battleground, but I highly recommend a lazy afternoon drive to Homeland Creamery.
Homeland Creamery
6506 Bowman Dairy Road
Julian, NC 27283
(336) 685-MILK
http://homelandcreamery.com