THE STORY: Family-owned Wright’s Dairy Farm & Bakery in North Smithfield has been producing and baking various dairy products since 1914. Wright’s offers a full line of cream pastries, breakfast items, milk and decorative cakes. The farm includes a 120-cow, free-stall barn and a milking barn. Wright’s also started making ice cream in 2012 and it’s the state’s only cow-to-home ice cream.
› In 2020, Wright’s Dairy Farm & Bakery made approximately 15,000 gallons of ice cream. Packaged ice cream varies from $6.50 to $8.50. Scooped ice cream varies from $3 to $6.50.
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› The ice cream is made of milk, cream, sugar, corn syrup solids, egg yolks and organic stabilizer.
› There are four people making a single unit of ice cream, but different people are involved in various stages of the process depending on the day.
› The cows are milked on the first day, then it is blended with ingredients on the second day to make the ice cream base. The base is homogenized and pasteurized and aged overnight. On the third day, the base is churned into semi-frozen ice cream. This is also when cookies, brownies, cake, or nuts are added. Then on the fourth day, the ice cream is served.
› Wright’s employs 120 people.
