Started in 1965 by Creed & Helen Coombs, Jericho Acres Dairy farm was your typical Kentucky farm. Summers were full with setting, hoeing, topping, and cutting tobacco. The weather would turn cooler and corn was chopped for silage for cows, tobacco was cut, hung in the barns, and then finally stripped to be sold at auction. Every morning and evening was filled with the sound of pulsators at the barn as Holsteins towered over while being milked. Since 1965, not much has changed. Of course, the farm has been passed down to the next generation, with the third generation joining the mix in 2014. Currently the three partners are Creed and Helen’s sons, brothers: Guy Coombs, Dennis Coombs, and Guy's son Curtis Coombs. 

Along with their families, they have expanded the home farm from 180 acres to 475 acres from while, simaltaniously, growing the milking herd from 50 cows to 92 cows.

However, all things must change and change it did. In March of 2018, the farm received a letter from the processor saying the farm’s milk would no longer be needed, due to the unexpected closing of the dairy processing plant in Louisville, Kentucky. All processing plants have customers and when you have a customer that decides to go out on their own, depending on the size of the customer, that shakes up your business model pretty good. We had got caught in the dairy industry’s perfect storm. An oversupply of milk paired with a new processing plant opening too far away from our farm. Not only was this plant closing, but apart from begging, which I am sure we did at one point, no other processor was willing to take us on. We had received a letter on March 2nd and the plant gave us until May 31st. That is 90 days to find a home for our 250 dairy cows.

After receiving national attention we have decided to change our plans in order to ultimately achieve the same goal….to milk cows and save the family farm.

In May of 2019 we purchased an ice cream trailer and developed plans to build a farm market on our farm. The market, now known as Jericho Farmhouse, and our farm provides a place for farmers to sell their goods along with allowing us to give tours to the public.

We are excited to welcome you to our little slice of Henry County heaven and ice cream.