We started with a single pushcart in Prospect Park in the summer of 2010 and opened our first scoop shop in May of 2011.  We were novice entrepreneurs and new parents in search of a neighborhood ice cream shop filled with nostalgia and whimsy and over the top, playful ice cream flavors. We are proud to have founded Ample Hills Creamery; named after a Walt Whitman poem about the connections between people across time and space. 

What is it then between us? 

What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?

 Whatever it is, it avails not--Distance avails not, and place avails not, 

I too lived, Brooklyn of ample hills was mine.

--Walt Whitman, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry 1856