Farmer Profile: Horse Creek Farm Dairy + Recipe from Little Lou's Creamery
Horse Creek Farms, now with Little Lou’s Creamery, has been a family farm since the 1770s. A working dairy that milks for Ingles, and also raised row crops, they have turned part of the farm into a welcoming agritourism ice cream parlor. In 2018, Scott and Emily Armstrong took on the dairy and the farm Brand, deciding that value-added and tourism was key to being able to stay a dairy, given the declining prices of milk and increased input costs.
Little Lou’s Creamery is the ice cream parlor + local foods market. It’s right on the farm off Wilhoit Rd, Chuckey, overlooking the pasturing dairy cows and the Viking Mountain range of the Appalachians.
The ice cream parlor features ice cream by the scoop, made from Ingles’ milk and cream. The cafe also had sandwiches and a cold drinks menu, making it a true farm cafe.
In honor of June being Dairy month, and as a mother of young kids, here is Guest Chef Emily Armstrong’s breakfast recipe for busy moms on the go who love fresh local food:
Featured Recipe: Quick Oatmeal for Local Lovin' Moms
Support local farms five ways through simple Oatmeal!
Make your porridge or oatmeal using local milk and berries:
🌾(1) Breakfast grain porridge from Two Stones Mill
🐄 (2)Milk, Yogurt, Butter
Ingles is who Horse Creek Dairy sells their milk to.
🫐(3)Berries
Blueberry Hill, River Creek Farm or Boone Street Market