Meet Clumpies Director, Ashley Bottoms

Dear Clumpies Lovers, 

I'm Ashley Bottoms, and for the past decade I've had the joy of helping create everything you love about Clumpies Ice Cream Co. 

I am a classically trained pastry chef, and desserts are my passion. I attended Johnson & Wales University and worked at places like the Biltmore Estate in Asheville as well as several well-known bakeries and coffee shops in Nashville before moving to Chattanooga in 2015. I joined the Clumpies team soon after as the Ice Cream Chef developing flavors, moved into a role as the Production Manager, then up to the Senior Manager overseeing all of Clumpies, and now serve as its Director. 

One of my favorite parts of leading this team is building local partnerships and celebrating the creativity of our community through flavor collaborations and ingredient sourcing. Keeping Clumpies connected to Chattanooga has always mattered to me. My husband Justin and I also run a small farm where we grow organic produce and flowers that we sell - along with my pastries - at regional farmers' markets. Supporting local agriculture is important to me, and I bring those same values to the way we source ingredients for Clumpies. 

I am incredibly proud of Clumpies' commitment to creativity, community, quality, and care. Clumpies has always been a company built on heart and craftmanship, and it has been an honor to help guide it over the last decade. 

This note is simply to say hello and share a bit of who I am. We'll have more news to share soon, but for now, please know how grateful I am to have you alongside us. Thank you for supporting Chattanooga's ice cream and the people who make it. 

In Small Batches and Big Joy, 

Ashley Bottoms