Stensland Family Farms opens east-side location
May 28, 2019
Stensland Family Farms opened its east-side retail location today with its signature hand-dipped ice cream and more.
“We’re trying to mirror the west-side location,” said Mark Stensland, a family owner who’s the general manager of the retail stores for Stensland Family Farms, which is near Larchwood, Iowa.
The east-side location is in a retail center on 41st Street just a few blocks east of Sycamore Avenue that includes Anytime Fitness.
The shop’s 24 flavors of ice cream and sorbet rotate with the seasons and are used to make bowls, waffles cones, floats and sundaes. Eventually, it will add a soft-serve machine to make milkshakes and mixers, Stensland said.
The cooler is filled with the farm’s milk, half-and-half, cream, butter, cheese, cheese curds. Customers also can buy quarts and half-gallons of Stensland ice cream.
Other items include Stensland frozen pizzas, frozen hamburger and jars of salsa, preserves and pickled veggies. The shop also sells products from Lee’s Meat’s & Sausages, All Nuts, Gaylen’s Popcorn, Coffea Roasterie and Casey’s Bakery.
While the West 41st Street shop serves paninis and soup for lunch, the east-side location won’t, Stensland said.
In the new east-side store, there’s seating for 16, but Stensland expects to add another table and also have a few along the sidewalk in front of the shop.
The past few months have been busy ones for Stensland Family Farms. While it has been 2 1/2 years since the original retail location opened at 3101 W. 41st St., the business has opened two locations in the past month. Stensland Family Farms became the city’s new operator for Falls Overlook Cafe at Falls Park on April 26.
“It’s been crazy,” Stensland said. “The main issue is that you can’t find help.” He’s hiring for all three locations.
Hours for the new location are 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday.