Free ice cream: Do you need more than those three words to get motivated?

How about free hot dogs, live music, ice creamery tours and the official unveiling of 1½-acre sustainable farm that will be used to grow ice cream ingredients?

It’s all happening from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday

at Snoqualmie Ice Cream’s first Ice Cream-O-Rama.

Free ice cream will be served in sample cups, more than a taste, but less than a full scoop.

Snoqualmie Ice Cream is a Snohomish County creamery and cafe at 21106 86th Ave. SE in Maltby, the little town south of Snohomish, just off Highway 522.

Musical performances will include some of Pike Place Market’s top performers and a special 2 p.m. performance by Caspar Babypants, the critically acclaimed children’s group, featuring Chris Ballew of the Grammy-nominated band, The Presidents of the United States.

Snoqualmie Ice Cream, which recently dropped the word gourmet from its name, makes standard and unusual flavors of ice cream, gelato, sorbet and custard.

Flavors include green tea, French lavender and Mukilteo Mudd ice creams, creme fraiche and peppermint gelatos and espresso, lemon and pumpkin custards.

Snoqualmie’s cafe offers gourmet sandwiches, soups and salads, along with sweet treats such as waffle cones, brownies and homemade caramel sauce.

At the creamery, you can also sample limited edition flavors such as Tennessee whiskey and pomegranate cheesecake.

Snoqualmie, owned since 1997 by locals Barry and Shahnaz Bettinger, sells 700,000 pints annually at major grocery stores throughout Washington, Oregon, California and Texas.

If green-building techniques float your proverbial boat, you might visit Snoqualmie Ice Cream just to see its eco-friendly features, including solar panels that help run the creamery and a bioswale landscaping area that collects rain water to reduce damaging storm water runoff.

The Bettingers will use their newly established farm to produce ingredients for their ice creams, including honey, eggs, lavender and blackberries.

Call 360-668-8535 or see snoqualmieicecream.com for more details.

Sarah Jackson: 425-339-3037, sjackson@heraldnet.com.