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Many of you told me a visit to Moomers is a must when visiting Northern Michigan.
Moomers, named America’s Best Scoops by Good Morning America, is a dairy bar, serving some of the country’s best ice-cream. The ice-cream shop is located on the Plummer family farm outside of Traverse City, and you can click here to check out their amazing menu. The dairy produces over 100 different flavors of ice-cream, with over 20 available daily.
After our yummy dinner at Joe’s Friendly Tavern, CD and I drove a few miles out of the way on our way back to Fife Lake for some Moomers, and I’m so glad we did! Cherries Moobilee is their most popular flavor: black cherry flavored ice cream with chunks of black sweet cherries, red tart cherries, chocolate fudge swirl and chunks of homemade brownie pieces. So, of course, I wanted to try a scoop. After all, Northern Michigan is the Cherry Capital of the World. However, I’m really more of a chocolate girl at heart. What was I to do? Get 2 scoops! 
Notice the cows in the background?
I ordered a scoop of Cherries Moobilee (recommended by reader Amy) and a scoop of Chocolate Peanut Butter Chunk (recommended by Sarah): chocolate ice cream with pieces of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and creamy peanut butter swirl. Moomers, you score big points for chunkage factor! So much for eating less dairy and peanut butter, huh? Oh well, I plan to do better when we get back to Nashville. Anyway, the ice-cream was amazing and many thanks to everyone who tipped us off to Moomers. I really wanted to get the HEABlet a Moomers’ T-shirt before we left, but after we finished our cones, the line of customers was out the door. Oh well, next year little HEABlet, I promise!
Have you ever been to a dairy farm for ice-cream? In my opinion, there’s nothing like it!
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That looks good. You can’t go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate.
I STILL haven’t made it to Moomer’s yet! I did buy a pint of Shetler’s vanilla at Oryana today (local, grass fed;) along with their kefir.
Erin,
You must go! It was such a fun place, and the ice-cream was amazing…definitely worth taking a night off from being Primal.
Shetler’s, huh? Grassfed ice-cream and Kefir. Bummed I missed out on those. Next year for sure!
Wow that ice cream sounds unreal. Those two flavors sound right up my alley. Yum!!!
That ice cream looks amazing! Love the sound of the flavours.
I am living vicariously through you on vacation and you are not disappointing
Evan,
So happy to hear.
I bet you could call them and have them send the shirt-let to you… MOOOOOOMers… Can’t stop saying it…
I think CD needs one too..
no nut butter deliveries yet.. darn…
Carolyn,
UPS failed you. I am so sorry.
Yes, I thought about ordering online…might have to break down and do it. Cow shirts for the whole fam!
i haven’t but i want more than anything to bury my face in that ice cream cone!
Heather,
That about describes my experience with it.
I’d love to go to a dairy farm to try some ice cream!! No doubt they;d have the absolute best stuff.
And that PB scoop sounds incredible. My all time favorite flavor was moose tracks and it sounds a lot like it. Mmmm 
Why does dairy not like me???
Sarena,
I don’t know.
Mmmhmm! Mooville ice cream is amazing. I really miss my Plainwell ice cream most of all though.
Oh man, Moomers looks awesome– you can cut back on the dairy and PB when you return, but not while still in Michigan with all these great dairy places
I’ve never been to a dairy farm, but I’m sure wishing I had one close right about now!
Oh this post makes me so homesick for true Midwest ice cream! I can’t find the good stuff out in ‘must be uber skinny’ SoCal!
Nothing beats real cream ice cream!
I went to undergrad at the University of WI in Madison, which has a dairy farm on campus, and they make their own ice cream right on campus. One summer, I worked at the entomology lab across the street from the building where they made and sold the ice cream. Lets just say that I may have gained a few pounds that summer….but it was all worth it.
Katie,
Oh gosh, they would have had to roll me off campus. Isn’t there some famous cheese made on the campus as well? My former boss used to love it and always had it in the fridge at work. I’m not sure if people brought it to him or if he ordered it online, but it was his favorite!
I have been to a dairy farm, and I loved it. It was nice to see the cows graze on gas and not be full of hormones
And that ice cream looks goooood!!!!
Omigod, I want that ice cream cone! So jealous
As a fellow ice cream obsessed nut, I drooled when I saw this post. It’s so hard not to eat ice cream in the summer heat!
Jill,
Agreed – that’s why I keep eating it.
The ice cream looks so good! The closest I have had to ice cream from a farm is a little ice cream place that buys local ice cream and serves it up into glass bowls and real spoons for you. It’s one of my favorite places, but its sadly a 45 minute drive.
Those choices are ridiculous- Yum! I have a hard enough time deciding what to get at Sweet Cece’s! I would definitely have to improve my decision-making skills before going to that place
Whitney,
At least at Sweet Cece’s, you can fill your cup with a little of each.
So this is something else I’ll add to my infamous Bucket List…along with not going bankrupt and finding true peace and a happy job…y’know the little things
Goodness, I’ve never been a big cherry fan in ice-cream, but that looks stellar! Especially against that background!
I sadly have not been to a dairy bar, but I will now. Cherry ice cream is hands down my favorite. Drooling right now
Holy smokes!! That ice cream looks to die for
I’m a huge fan of trying to get food as close to the source as possible, and ice cream from a dairy farm pretty much hits that on the nose! Yummy
Just have to say I’m enjoying your posts on being in Northern Michigan. I grew up in Detroit and spent parts of every summer growing up near Traverse City and other parts of northern Michigan. Since college–12 years now–I’ve been in another part of the country and trips home are so much more infrequent. You’ve reminded me how I need to get back!
Lisa,
Michigan is beautiful – we’ve so enjoyed our stay here, and I hope you make it back home soon!
never been to a dairy farm but moomers is a great name, makes me laugh ahaha
My very best friend lives right on Long Lake, just a few miles from Moomers! I LOVE that place! So glad you went! It ROCKS!
If you drive through Ohio on your way back to Nashville, consider stopping at Young’s Dairy in Yellow Springs. It’s a great place to stretch your legs (good hiking nearby at a state park which the dogs would like), and their homemade ice-cream is delish. I love your blog – thanks for all you share with us!
Brandae,
We head south through Indiana.
Young’s Dairy sounds like my kind of place, but unfortunately, we don’t drive through Ohio.
Thanks so much for reading HEAB.
When I lived in Ortonville, we used to go to Cook’s Dairy Farm all the time. It was the place to go for ice cream around that area. Now I live 30 minutes northeast of Flint so the drive is a little too much, but luckily a lot of places around here still carry Cook’s.
I’ve never had ice cream from a dairy farm, but your pictures and review make me want to find one in my area!
No but some days I practically live on ice cream, so that sounds like an amazing experience. Especially that chocolate flavor!
Have you ever been to a dairy farm for ice-cream?–
Yes! I grew up in rural MN, the land of dairy. Well, Wisc is but who’s splitting hairs. School field trips always involved someone’s dad’s farm and barn. There were no fancy trips to science museums or clever outings to the latest and greatest god knows what. No, we went to farms. It was basic.
But it was real. And it was lovely. And it made me appreciate where my food comes from.
Oh, and just last year, I took Skylar to a raw vegan ice creamery…on an unschooling field trip.
Coconut meat and agave, not cow’s milk and sugar.
Unschooling and not classrooms.
Boy, how times have changed. But they are both good (the ice cream), they both teach us something (the schooling method); these things are the stuff life’s memories, and childhood memories, are made of
Just wait til you can take heablet back there!
2 posts in a day, I’m watching you Missy…don’t work too hard!
Averie,
Where was the vegan ice-cream creamery – in AZ? If so, I must go there next time we visit CD’s parents!
Also, the two posts a day is fun – I just split my one long post into 2. I’m liking it. I know somedays I won’t have as much to say, and on those days, I’ll keep just post once. We’ll see how it goes.
Oh what would I give to try that ice cream, with peanut butter and chocolate…yummy.
I’m glad you enjoyed it
Omg, I love ice cream and that cone is just amazing!
I like the name of the place, it is so fun to say moooomers!!
Just as Katie the college I went to (and now am back for the masters), NCSU, has it’s own dairy farm. They make their own ice cream which is incredibly good, so creamy, like any ice cream you can ever find. We had them once and it was love at first sight, you could tell it was going to be good just by looking at it. Their ice cream not only taste good, it also looks really good, just like the one you had!
They used to only sell it at the dairy plant or at the food science building, but now they opened a small ice cream shop that sells their goodness right inside the Library – can you see the danger in that??? I now have an awesome excuse to go study at the library, as I really need the quietness… and the brain fuel!
Ana
Ana,
Ice-cream from the local dairy farm at the library…oh my gosh, I’d be taking a study break every 5 minutes and probably gain 5 lbs during finals.
Thanks for the mention in your blog! That’s a first for me!!!!!
I’m glad you made it to Moomers and enjoyed. It is really yummy! I told my hubby that I thought we went there too much and he disagreed. Too funny! You can tell we both have a sweet tooth and a love of ice cream.
Another great Michigan Dairy Farm is “Cook’s”. Located in Ortonville, about 45 min north of Detroit. It’s about 5 minutes from my parents house and it is so good. I usually get their ‘Blue Moo’ flavor to help me relive my youth.
BTW, SO jealous that Moomers didn’t have that peanut butter flavor when I was there!!
I’m sorry to hear you didn’t get the heab-let a tshirt. Maybe I can send you my munchkin’s if you don’t mind a hand me down? (serious about this!) He’s almost out grown it and the little one’s clothes see very little use.
Oh and p.s.
Here’s a t-shirt tip for next year. The register on the right hand side (if your facing the counter) is just for retail sales. There isn’t always someone standing there but you don’t have to wait in the huge line of ice cream ‘wanters’ to get a shirt!! Sorry I didn’t tell you this sooner!
Amy,
Ugh, I thought about going back in and asking for a t-shirt without getting in line…should have tried it. Oh well, next year perhaps, and yes, I would gladly take a Moomers hand-me-down. Would love it in fact.
I think another commenter mentioned Cook’s. I wonder if my friends who live in Ann Arbor have ever been there? I am so going to miss MI’s passion for good ice-cream!
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