These sisters are serving up small-town charm and from-scratch flavors in an ice cream truck

A 1949 red Chevrolet pickup comes chugging around the corner. It’s 10 a.m. and already 90 degrees at North Manatee RV and Boat Storage, and Ali Converse is here to pick me up.

We’re going to the other side of the lot, where the American Honey Creamery truck Ali runs with her sister Mindy sits on scorching cement, sandwiched between a Pinnacle RV and a Squeaky Tiki Mobile Car Wash and Detailing vehicle.

There is no jingly tune, no faded menu of ice cream sandwiches and push-up pops. But it is summer in Florida, and we are here to make ice cream.

Ali, 20, and Mindy, 23, grew up in Preston, Conn., in a family of dairy farmers. As kids, they helped raise calves in their backyard. In their town of 3,000 people, the closest ice cream stand was 45 minutes away. The sisters wanted to open something a little closer to home.

They started dreaming up plans for a creamery. They would use milk from their cows. The space would be part community gathering spot, part dessert stop. This was back in 2016, when they were 17 and 19 years old. They even presented a business plan they worked on in school to a bank in Connecticut, in the hopes of getting a loan.

Then their dad got a job in Florida.

The family relocated to Manatee County — and so did their grand ice cream plans

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