The Twisted Goat

05/12/2026

04/20/2026

FarmerJohn is back with his goat milk soft serve ice cream from and fresh goat milk from ~~ local dairy from goats raised on green pastures.

Goat milk is A2 and many people find it easier to digest.

The soft serve is made of simple, clean ingredients.

And the best news? This summer we will be offering soft serve every day of the week!

04/19/2026

🍦STILL TIME FOR A FRIDAY NIGHT SWEET TREAT! 🍦

03/24/2026

BELATED PIE DAY!
Eileen from Old Paths Farm had 2 extra “old fashioned Buttermilk Pies” so i got em’.

À La Modê is france talk for put some dang ol’ ice cream up on that thang!

03/09/2026

Do you goat a special event coming up?

Rent US OUT!

•Graduations
•Corporate Events
•Weddings
•Now accepting reservations!

12/13/2025

STRAW!
Cold front rolling in = more straw needed for the ladies. Winter Break duties include getting hay, keeping water troughs un- frozen, dry straw bedding, waste removal, and cuddles for warmth.
It’s also the time of year for soap making & book keeping. Wonder what we will have in store this spring??
also. hmu if you have a straw plug.

11/02/2025

AND you dont even have to fly to Sweden!!!

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17UsV8AMWU/?mibextid=wwXIfr

What if your goats could help you start a business that’s as fun as it is profitable?

In this episode, Oskar Edwall from Sweden shares how he transformed his goats’ milk into small-batch ice cream and gelato that locals can’t get enough of. From milking to mixing, he reveals the art and science behind goat milk desserts.

Listen to the full story on For the Love of Goats. 🍦🐐

Episode link in the comments!

10/30/2025

⚠️Here’s your warning!

We’re down to the final servings available for the 2025 season. Will you make it in for yours? 🤔

10/26/2025

grateful to be able to carry on this areas soft serve tradition of firsts!! and WE are the 1st GOAT MILK ICE CREAM soft serve in the Midwest 🍦🍦🍦

“The Quad Cities: The Real Birthplace of Dairy Queen”

www.whatsgoingonqc.com

Most people think Dairy Queen started in Joliet, Illinois. Technically, that’s where the first official store opened. But the real story…the one they don’t teach you on the back of a Blizzard cup…starts right here in the Quad Cities.

Back in 1938, J.F. “Grandpa” McCullough and his son Alex developed a brand-new soft-serve recipe. To test it out, they brought it to a small ice cream shop in Moline, Illinois. The result? A frenzy. People lined up around the block. Word spread fast: this was no ordinary ice cream. This was something new.

Just a few years later, one of the very first official Dairy Queen stores opened on 4th Avenue in Moline. That store helped shape the look and feel of the brand, even influencing the flat-top building style you still see on DQ shops across the country today.

Meanwhile, in East Moline, a local inventor named Henry Duke changed the game completely. He built the world’s first pressurized soft-serve freezer, which made it possible to serve that perfect swirl consistently in every store. Without East Moline’s mechanical genius, Dairy Queen might never have grown into the national brand it became.

Then came the 1970s, and the Quad Cities delivered again. The Medd family from Moline, longtime DQ operators, invented and patented the Blizzard mixing machine…ushering in a new era of over-the-top ice cream treats. Around the same time, the first mint Dilly Bar was created right here in Moline as well.

So while the world may know Dairy Queen as a global brand, we know the truth: the heart of it lives right here.

From the first cone to the Blizzard machine, from mechanical innovation to flavor creation, the Quad Cities didn’t just watch Dairy Queen grow.

We helped build it.

10/11/2025

OPEN TONIGHT!

we missed out on 2nd saturdays farmers market ice cream due to a cracked trike frame 😳 so all the freshly made product went to the shop. come see what all the hype is about