FOOD & DRINK
Cricker's Creamery
By Brianne Hogan Photos Atlantic 360 Photography
“I was literally driving by one cold December day in 2020 and I said, ‘I should open an ice cream shop
It was Maria Smith’s love of cows that brought her into the ice cream world. Growing up in New Glasgow, she started milking and showing cows as a teenager. It was her affection for them — as well as her love for ice cream — that inspired her to open North Rustico’s Cricker’s Creamery.
there’ and the rest is history,” she shares.
As most locals might know, a "cricker" is someone who was born and raised in North Rustico, and Smith came up with the name sitting with her brother, who suggested "cricker" when she mentioned she wanted something catchy with alliteration. She came up with “creamery” and the name stuck.
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