Trombetta's Farm - Marlboro MA

That's the logo that greatly describes this place.  A garden center, an ice cream shop, and a mini golf course that's held indoors.  Also, the street is named Farm Road, which makes this place rather a bit more easier to find, although, the airport next to it could question the people who are looking for this place to try out this ice cream and even try the course here.

What's even more nice about this place, is that although from November to April that they are only open on weekends from 10am to 6pm (Not that I don't mind, since people are working on weekdays anyways) as opposed to Kimball Farms which they shut tight for the winter and mock me with a country store cafe that refuses to sell cups of ice cream despite them selling them half gallons, this place is actually open year round.  So, if you find this ice cream place to be great, there's no need to stock up, and you can just buy quarts if you are planning to have some ice cream that week or buying some for the holidays.

But aside from the lovely logo, this place feels like being in a garden while you are enjoying the ice cream or just playing around some mini golf.  The decision to make this a greenhouse really does make it feel kind of like outdoors when you are going in the greenhouse, while at the same time, you won't get rained on (or snowed on during the winter) when you are playing mini golf.  I do remember the Volcano hole where you can try a few times to hit the ball into the hole (but the last time, I can't find the hole when I played it).  Also, this place makes their own ice cream, instead of relying on another place for it.

But I have to say, the amount of flavers aren't as much as the ones you see at Kimballs or Richardson's, as this place only has about 20 to 30 flavers, as opposed to Kimball's 41 flavers and Richardson's 53, but they do sell seasonal flavers during the year.  They also sell children's novalties in case if the child decides that he or she want's that if he or she doesn't want the flavers up top.  Hopefully, they would sell egg nog ice cream during Thanksgiving or Christmas.  Speaking of ice cream, I did order mocha chip-Apple Crisp-Ginger banana split. 

Now, they sure did put a LOT of fruit inside this.  Lots of strawberries in it.  But the apple crisp ice cream is just as good as the one in Richardsons.  Tastes just like apple crisp, instead of the awful cinnamon overload ice cream from Jay Gee's.  I do believe that the mocha chip tastes quite a bit like chocolate chocolate chip, and the ginger ice cream is a bit light in color.  It would be nice if they had indian pudding though.

TROMBETTA FARM - Marlboro Mass

Open Year Round

Spring Hours (April-May): 10am-8pm
Summer Hours: (June-August) 10am-9pm
Fall Hours: (September-October) 10am-8pm
Winter Hours (November-March) 10am-6pm Weekends Only