The Story Behind The Scoop: Callestick Farm

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There are plenty of ice cream producers. There are far fewer that started life as dairy farmers.

The Parker family have been farming at Callestick, just outside Truro, since 1953. For more than three decades, the focus was simple: producing quality milk from their own herd. Then, in 1989, they took a different path.

Rather than selling all of their milk, they began transforming it into ice cream.

What started as a way of adding value to the family farm quickly developed into one of Cornwall's best-known food producers, supplying local shops, cafés and professional kitchens with ice cream made just metres from where the milk is produced.

Today, more than 35 years later, that philosophy hasn't changed.

A FARM FIRST, AN ICE CREAM MAKER SECOND

The story of Callestick isn't built around a factory. It's built around a farm.

Fresh milk from the family's herd remains at the heart of every tub, creating an ice cream with a rich dairy flavour and smooth, natural texture that's become synonymous with the brand.

That same approach extends to the ingredients they choose. Wherever possible, they'll source close to home, from Cornish clotted cream to Cornish sea salt. But quality always comes first. If the finest pistachios come from Italy, that's exactly where they'll source them.

It's a straightforward philosophy that's helped Callestick earn the trust of chefs, not through trends or clever marketing, but by producing consistently exceptional ice cream year after year.

THE CALLESTICK RANGE AT FOREST PRODUCE

Click each drop-down below to explore the Callestick Farm range available to order for next-day delivery on the Forest Produce app:

Ice cream range

Belgian Chocolate 4 litre

Clotted Cream Vanilla 4 litre

Honeycomb 4 litre

Mint Choc Chip 4 litre

Rum & Raisin 5 litre

Salted Caramel 4 litre

Strawberries & Clotted Cream 4 litre

Sorbet range

Blood Orange 2.5 litre

Elderflower 2 litre

Gin & Lemon 2.5 Litre

Lemon 2 litre

Mango 2 litre

Passion Fruit 2.5 litre

Pink Champagne 2 litre

Raspberry 2 litre

WHY WE CHOOSE CALLESTICK

At Forest Produce, we're always looking for producers with a genuine story behind their products. Not because it makes for good marketing, but because it usually results in better food.

Callestick is a perfect example.

Three generations of the Parker family continue to shape the business, combining traditional farming with modern ice cream making while staying true to the values the farm was built on more than 70 years ago.

Whether you're serving a scoop alongside a classic sticky toffee pudding, pairing raspberry sorbet with summer berries or finishing a plated dessert with Madagascan vanilla, Callestick delivers exactly what professional kitchens need: outstanding flavour, dependable consistency and a product that's made with real care from the ground up.

Sometimes, the best ingredients have the simplest stories.

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