Nanaimo bar, butter tart: London dairy farm celebrates Canada with new gelato flavours

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· Posted: Jun 30, 2025 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

A London-area dairy workplace is whipping up thing peculiar for Canada Day. 

The sixth generation farmers astatine Proof Line Farm Creamery & Market are churning up their full beverage to marque Canadian-inspired gelato flavours. 

From food tart to Saskatoon berry, the tasty treats item a diverseness of iconic Canadian flavours. 

Janan McNaughton is the co-owner of Proof Line Farm Creamery and Market successful Ilderton, conscionable northbound of London. She spoke with CBC's Josiah Sinanan connected Afternoon Drive. 

The pursuing interrogation has been edited for clarity and length.

LISTEN: Tastes of Canada brought to beingness successful gelato by London-area dairy farm

Josiah Sinanan: Before we get into the delicious gelato, archer america a small spot astir your farm.

Janan McNaughton: We're a sixth procreation dairy farm about five minutes northbound of London. It's inactive precise overmuch a hands-on household concern with 4 generations each moving here. The creamery that is astir a year-and-a-half-old was started by my hubby and I, and that's wherever we merchantability our full milk, and we marque our farm-to-table gelato each close present connected the farm.

JS: I person to inquire you astir the sanction Proof Line Farm Creamery. Where did the sanction travel from?

JM: Proof Line was really the archetypal sanction of Richmond Street which is wherever our workplace is located, close astatine Richmond and Ilderton Road. When we were reasoning of gathering this creamery, we wanted thing that truly connected to the section history, so Proof Line was right wherever our workplace entranceway is.

JS: Why is workplace to array important to you?

JM: We unrecorded successful 1 of the champion increasing and harvesting regions successful the world. The prime of the nutrient that tin beryllium grown here, it's satellite people and it's truly important for farms to beryllium capable to bring their products to the section nationalist truthful that everyone tin stock successful in the bounty of what surrounds us.

Typically, there's not a batch of section workplace creameries successful our area, adjacent though determination are a batch of dairy farms. So, this was conscionable a mode for america to to bring a caller product, our full beverage and particularly the gelato, directly to the community.

JS: You mentioned the creamery is simply a newer summation to this. Why gelato?

JM: The basal of gelato is full milk. And due to the fact that we person specified large precocious prime full-fat full beverage from our ain farm, it was conscionable a earthy acceptable for us. Ice pick requires a fewer other steps to marque with conscionable churning cream, but with gelato, we tin conscionable instrumentality our beverage and start churning it close away, and past adding the flavours successful that travel from our section ingredients. It's a cleanable acceptable really for a dairy workplace similar us.

JS: I recognize you've got a peculiar enactment coming up of Canadian flavours for your gelato. Talk to america astir what immoderate of those are.

JM: So this play we're launching a ton of caller Canadian inspired flavours that radical person been asking america for. We person buttertart, Nanaimo bar, a Saskatoon berry sorbet with bluish lights, which is haskap berries with mint. There's there's a full clump of caller flavours that are going to beryllium coming retired specifically for this weekend.

JS: You said haskap berries are portion of the Northern Lights flavour. What are those? 

JM: Haskap berries are a precise delicate berry that looks benignant of similar a blueberry but tastes much similar a tart raspberry. And they're conscionable gaining much popularity close present successful our region. We get ours from a household that grows them successful Ilderton. They may beryllium a small spot unfamiliar to people, but they're a truly large summation to gelato due to the fact that they person a precise beardown flavour and a colour that comes done beautifully.

JS: Talk to america astir immoderate of the challenges that travel with farming today. 

JM: It's an absorbing time right present to beryllium a tiny farm. As overmuch arsenic there's increasing nationalist involvement successful buying section and eating local, which is great, there's each kinds of pressures connected onshore usage close now. As the metropolis grows things similar housing, infrastructure, each that and agriculture is 1 happening where, you know, we truly request the onshore to beryllium capable to assistance america support section nutrient increasing here. So I deliberation truly the inspiration for starting the store was to to assistance america transportation connected the household workplace and make that that nonstop transportation with the assemblage truthful that everybody tin bask this for years to come.

JS: Have you seen that boost with radical looking to buy more Canadian products? 

JM: Absolutely, yeah. We person a batch of archetypal clip radical coming successful conscionable asking questions and that's thing we've wanted to beryllium from time 1 is conscionable to beryllium a harmless spot for radical to travel and inquire questions astir section agriculture.

We effort to bash the champion we tin to speech astir what we bash connected our workplace specifically and why, having changed a batch of our practices to a much regenerative, sustainable attack recently. But besides what's going connected successful the wider scenery of the nutrient strategy and wherever radical tin spell to get things that possibly we don't merchantability present oregon but our neighbour makes oregon grows. We're conscionable trying to connection that transportation to radical truthful that they tin truly bask what is each astir us.