Keri Berries Farm Store is a roadside ice cream shop and farm store at 484 Kerikeri Rd, Kerikeri, in the Far North, rated 4.6 from 127 Google reviews. Reviewers praise the berry and fresh fruit ice creams and mention a small cafe, fresh produce, deli goods, sourdough and chutneys, with easy off-street parking off the main road.
Farm-gate ice cream shops live and die by the fruit: the best flavours come from berries picked ripe and churned in small batches, so they follow the season and peak in summer. Fresh fruit ice cream — real fruit folded through the churn, not flavouring alone — is the thing to look for, and it sits naturally beside the preserves and chutneys a good berry season produces. Such stops reward a slow visit — a scoop in the sun, a browse of the shelves.
For a scoop on a hot Northland day, Keri Berries sits on the main road into Kerikeri, with parking to match.