cherry dairy By Caroline Hood • Photography by Alli{on Potter A 4-foot tall black-and-white Holstein cow sits on a rooftop. On its back is a red cherry. Approaching the T intersection of a winding country road, the sight will have you hitting the brakes. Maple View Farm Country Store near Hillsborough, North Carolina, is set amid undulating hills and faded red barns. Visitors sample freshly made ice cream from front porch rockers. Across the road lies a 400-acre farm, home to the distinctively colored cows responsible for the milk. For more than 50 years, Maple View Farm’s dairyman, Bob Nutter, 85, has raised black-and-white Holstein cows in pastures that gently curve around country roads. In more recent years he has turned the farm into a wildly popular ice cream destination. The rooftop cow is fake, but Nutter’s Holstein herd is for real. Maple View Farm’s milk and dairy products can be purchased at several groceries in Wilmington. The farm, seen below, is a great field trip. A larger than life black-and-white cow, cherry on top, decorates the dairy’s nearby store and homemade ice cream outlet. 90 WBM may 2014 PHOTOGRAPHS BY STEVEN WEBER/HILLSBOROUGH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Wrightsville Beach Magazine May 2014
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