Churn — Small-batch ice cream in Fernhill

The board · changes Mondays

Today's flavors.

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Sweet Cream

Hartwell milk, barely interrupted.

Malted Chocolate

Three cocoas and a scoop of malt.

Roasted Strawberry

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Roasted till jammy, folded in rough.

Sweet Corn & Blackberry

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August in a cone. Trust us.

Brown Butter Peach

Reyes orchard peaches, browned butter.

Pistachio Brittle

Toasted, salted, a little chewy.

Coffee & Donuts

Cold-brew custard, fried dough folds.

Lemon Buttermilk

Sherbet-adjacent. Bracing.

Toasted Coconut

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Coconut cream base, toasted twice.

Mango Lime Sorbet

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Just fruit, lime, and nerve.

Honey Graham

Wildflower honey, graham crumble.

Mint Cacao Chip

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Returns when the mint patch recovers.

The board changes every Monday. If a flavor you love has vanished, it is resting, not gone. Ask at the window and we will say when.

The smalls

The little rituals.

Kids scoop

Under ten? A dollar off, sprinkles free, cake cone by default. The scoop is smaller but not insultingly so.

Pup cup

A biscuit on unsweetened sweet cream. One dollar, and every dollar goes to the Fernhill shelter.

Cones, honestly

Cake cones are nostalgia and structural integrity. Waffle cones are baked here every morning and the whole shop smells like it. Both are correct.

Pints to go

The freezer by the register.

Eight flavors deep, packed hard the same day they were churned, eleven dollars flat. Grab one on the way out or make a special trip. We will not judge if it does not survive the drive home.

The lineup rotates with the board. That is the deal with seasons.

The flight

Four half pints of anything on the board, packed in one box with a sleeve of cake cones. Call ahead at (555) 555-0134 and it is waiting at close.

How we make it

Every gallon starts as milk and cream from Hartwell Farm, eleven miles up the valley road, and becomes ice cream in the back that same week. We churn three gallons at a time, small enough to taste every batch, big enough to survive a Saturday. Barely. Summer belongs to peaches and sweet corn. February belongs to the weird ones, black sesame, rye toast, roasted parsnip, because the quiet month is when the best ideas show up.

Nora and June laughing behind the counter in their aprons

The shop

Nora and June started with a crank machine.

Sisters-in-law Nora and June Alba opened Churn as a farmers market table in 2021: one hand-crank machine, a cooler of Hartwell cream, and a line that would not quit. The shop on Gable Street came two summers later, mostly so the line would have somewhere to stand in the rain.

June writes the board and argues for the strange flavors. Nora runs the machine and wins most of the arguments. Whoever loses the coin toss scrubs the churn.

"We make ice cream the slow way because it is the only way we know. The machine is faster than the crank now. Barely."

Party orders

Bring the sundae bar.

Warm fudge in a thermos, toasted almonds, cherries, real whipped cream, and enough cake cones for seconds. Or pint packs if you would rather scoop. Two weeks notice for weekends. Tell us the date and the headcount and we will do the math.

Plan a party

Sundae bar serves 15 to 50. The metal coupes stay at the shop; we send compostable ones.

Find us before it melts.

The storefront at dusk, people on the bench out front

Hours, honestly

May to SepDaily, noon till 10
Oct to Dec, Feb to AprWed to Sun, noon till 8
JanuaryClosed. We are inventing February.

The pill at the top of the page is always today's answer.

Address

22 Gable Street
Fernhill
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The bench out front seats four, five if one of you is small.

Say hello

(555) 555-0134
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Call about the flight, allergies, or whether the peach is back.