It's Time for Kimball Farm to start year-round ice cream serving.

OK.  Only a week and a half before they shutter the ice cream stand down for the winter, or at least stop producing ice cream.  I've been there in September, and noticed that there were still long lines at the stand.  But soon, it will turn october, and come Columbus Day, they will stop producing ice cream, close down the Lancaster, Carlisle, and Jaffery locations, and sell out and eventually close down the stand in Westford.

I understand the Bates farm in Carlisle, since that place is an ice cream stand-only place, and the window service at Westford.  But here's the problem.

The country store at the Westford Location (and Lancaster) is a sandwich cafe selling coffee, sandwiches and some more stuff, and tables inside for you to eat your food at.  Now, if Kimball makes their own ice cream in the back room, and if there's a cafe in the country store, then why don't they continue to make ice cream (but on a lower scale, and serve it in the country store once the weather gets too cold for window service?)  Now they do continue to sell half gallons for a while, but why don't they just open these boxes and sell the customers a sundae indoors?  Certainly, after my horse ride, I would like to go in the country store cafe and have a nice brownie sundae with cookies and cream ice cream there.

To take into further route, the weather is still perfect in october into early november to have window service.  It doesn't have to be every day, maybe do window service on Friday Afternoons, Saturdays, and Sundays, but still serve ice cream inside during the weekdays.  Not to mention that the Silo saying: "KIMBALL FARM ICE CREAM" mocks me every time I go to the country store and they don't sell sundaes in there in the cafe.

Now, let's compare the closings to other places.  Rota Springs Farms IS seasonal, but they don't close until the second weekend of NOVEMBER!  Richards ice cream is open year round, in both locations.  They only time they close during the winter is Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Bedford Farms is open year round.

So, if Kimball Farms has a cafe in the country store that's open year round, and they produce ice cream on the premise, and they sell ice cream very well on Columbus Day weekend, then they SHOULD think about continue to sell ice cream throughout the winter.

My flavers would be the basic five flavers (Choc, Strawberry, Vanilla, Coffee, Black Raspberry), top five other flavers on the regular menu, rotate three other flavers, and serve seasonal/specialty three other flavers.  If other places are serving ice cream very well like Bedford and Richardson's beyond Columbus Day, then Kinballs could make a ton more money selling ice cream in the winter.

And yea, I checked the facebook page, and I'm not alone.  People miss the ice cream, especially those who haven't stocked up yet.

So, for Kimball Fans out there, here's what you can do to get Kimball to start selling ice cream in the Winter:

1) Go to the country store and ask how you can give Kimball suggestins on what they do.
2) Suggest Kimball DEMANDING them to try to sell ice cream in the country store during the winter (or if the weather's good, do window service)
3) As for right now, stock up.  I suggest stocking up about a week before they close, to have more of a chance to get the flavers you want.
4) After the season's over, keep petitioning for year round ice cream service!

And as for me, this is how I feel after they stop selling Ice Cream.

So, all I have to say is: Petition, Enjoy the last few days, and STOCK UP!