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Farmhouse Creamery
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Locally owned ice cream shop serves unique flavors
like we’re doing something that was a need in the community.”
“I always wanted to work at anice cream shop growing up and I love to serve the people of Bryan-College Station” Rians said. “People love coming and taking pictures ... it’s very Instagram pleasing.”
Rians’ favorite flavor, Butterscotch Bomb, is one of the creamery’s most popular selections, along with Stellar Coffee. According to the Farmhouse Creamery website, the Butterscotch Bomb is “butterscotch ice cream loaded with a thick ribbon of butterscotch and exploding with brownies, Heath bars, cookies and peanut butter cups.”
Farmhouse Creamery offers up to 28 flavors at any given time.
“We have sort of a core group of flavors that we’re [going to] have all the time,” Veley said. “But we do have up to 28 flavors at a time, so I do have some wiggle room in there … I try to make sure we have a little bit of everything so that everyone, when they come in, they’re either going to have something new to try or going to see something that they love.”
Cherry Oblivion, Elephant Ears and Pirate’s Plunder are just a few of the flavors that can be found at Farmhouse Creamery, Aggieland’s locally operated ice cream shop.
Owner Deborah Veley said the shop is a family business and was started in hopes of creating a place where the environment was as welcoming as the dessert was good.
Veley, entrepreneur and mother of two young children, chose to open up Farmhouse Creamery in the HEB Tower Point shopping center because of the activity around the area.
“This side of town is growing and booming and there’s so many families here, and we wanted to have a place where people felt comfortable, and they loved coming, and they felt like their neighborhood shop,” Veley said.
Maggie Rians, communication senior and Farmhouse employee, believes the family-owned shop has a lot more to offer than chain ice cream parlors. Rians said working at
Farmhouse is a personal dream come true.
They try to come out with a new flavor about every month. In order to accommodate everyone’s needs, they also offer dairy-free, no-sugar-added and frozen yogurt flavors.
As the holidays approach, Farmhouse Creamery is preparing to unveil their Christmas flavors.
“[There is] an eggnog flavor, we have one called Winter Holiday, which has chocolate and white chocolate in it and we have Peppermint Flash, which we only get during the holidays,” Veley said.
According to employee Suzanne Russell, Farmhouse Creamery is a locally focused company and the employees feel a connection the community.
“Deborah is a friend of my son and his family, so when I found out she was looking for somebody I applied,” Russell said.
Veley said the shop has brought significant benefits to her own life and the B-CS dessert scene.
“First of all, I love ice cream and now I get ice cream whenever I want,” Veley said. “Secondly, I feel
By Hannah Falcon