Last year 275,000 ice cream fans toured this facility. Not bad for a company launched in 1978 in a renovated gas station. As visitors soon learn, it's not just about ice cream--there's a social mission behind Ben & Jerry's. Thirty-minute tours are offered daily, beginning with a seven-minute video, continuing on to the tour mezzanine, where you watch ice cream production. If production is down, a narrated video will fill in the details. The tour ends at the Scoop Shop, where guests try old favorites like Cherry Garcia, and perhaps, test-drive a new flavor.

Nestled in the heart of the Green Mountains our ice cream factory sits on a rolling pasture overlooking the Worcester Range, just north of the small town of Waterbury. Our guided factory tour is fun & educational for all ages. Guests will learn about the ice cream production process and how the Company?s 3-part mission statement is incorporated into day-to-day business decisions.

We start with a 7-minute ?moovie? shown in our Cow Over The Moon Theater. You?ll find out how two childhood friends, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, turned a $5 correspondence course on ice cream making into a very successful business that shares its success with its employees and with the community, and has fun doing it! From there we take you to our mezzanine, where you?ll get a bird?s eye view of ?Vermont?s Finest? in action and an explanation of the ice cream manufacturing process.

Then it?s off to the FlavoRoom for delicious samples of the day!

After the tour, feel free to visit our scoop shop & gift shop. The scoop shop features 30-40 of our euphoric flavors, & our gift shop offers lots of cool stuff & gifts with a socially responsible mission. Many of these gifts are available through our on-line catalog too.

Folks of all ages seem to like our plant tour, but it may be 'cause they get to eat some of our famous ice cream when it's over. Since you can't eat Blue Bell over the Internet, you might want to tour our facility and taste the fruits of our labor for yourself.

If you decide to visit us, here's the scoop. We offer guided plant tours weekdays throughout the year, but we're closed on weekends.

Goody's is a family run tradition of handmade chocolates, candies and ice cream. First created by Marne and Marion Palmateer in Sunriver, OR in 1984, Goody's Candy Store very quickly became a legendary and loved Central Oregon tradition selling assorted candies purchased for resale.

Later, the Palmateers started making their own chocolate out of their home to sell in the store. The store moved to its current location in the Sunriver Village Mall where the Palmateers started making their own award winning ice cream. The Sunriver Goody?s store continues to be a customer favorite during busy vacation times.

Other stores were opened in Bend and Boise, Idaho beginning in 1989 to 1999. To keep up with the demand for quality chocolate and ice cream it was necessary to open a manufacturing facility in Bend. The manufacturing plant is still running strong and produces over 16 tons of chocolate products each year and thousands of gallons of ice cream.

Dane and Jvon Danforth purchased the company in June of 2007, excluding the Boise store which is owned and operated by Brett Palmateer. The Danforth?s opened another store in Redmond, OR in November, 2007 and continue to provide the same quality products that Goody?s is known for.

Goody's chocolates and candies can be purchased by the piece or by the pound. Every decadent piece of Goody's chocolate is made preservative free in beautiful Central Oregon.

Since its founding in 1870 by Louis C. Graeter, Graeter's French Pot
Ice Cream, handmade chocolate confections and fresh baked goods
have become traditions in the Queen City. Today the Graeter family
still faithfully uses his century old recipes and methods of production.

Graeter?s has perfected our traditional French Pot process, making the world?s finest ice cream just two gallons at a time. It?s the only way to achieve the irresistible creaminess that is Graeter?s.

Hansen’s Dairy is a family-owned on-farm creamery in Hudson, Iowa. The Hansen family has been farming the same land for more than 150 years. We've been processing our own dairy products on the farm since 2004. Dairy products include milk, cheese curds, butter, heavy cream and ice cream. Hands-on, guided farm tours show visitors the process of getting milk from the cow to the table. Admission includes a trolley ride to the farm, then a walking tour to see our animals and facilities. All participants can feed a calf, milk a cow by hand, pet the kangaroos (our farm mascot) and goats, make homemade butter, sample Hansen's products and eat ice cream. Hansen's Dairy is a designated Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Site.

Hansen's Dairy also operates two retail stores. Hansen's Dairy Waterloo is a small grocery store selling our products, hard-dip ice cream treats and high-quality local food. Hansen's Dairy Cedar Falls is a small grocery store and gas station, selling our products, soft serve ice cream, high-quality local food and convenience items.

Homeland Creamery is owned and operated by Chris and Jayne and David and Terry Bowman. We are the sixth generation of farmers on the same homestead that have operated this dairy since the 1930?s . The herd has grown from a half dozen to over 200 cows now. We milk the cows with automatic and computerized milking machines in our milk parlor. Our cows are never given artificial growth hormones and are pasture raised and fed with hay, grains and feed grown right on our farmland. The cows are healthy and the milk is natural in quality and so fresh. We pasteurize our milk the old fashion way, using vats for a creamier richer taste! We process and bottle right on our own farm. That gives us total control over our quality, no shipping the milk somewhere else for processing. We supply the local area with milk products of the highest quality, freshness, good taste and free from added hormones and antibiotics. You can purchase our products at our Creamery store or retail stores.

Mayfield Dairy Farms began when my grandfather, T. B. Mayfield, established Live Oak Farms in 1912. He purchased 45 Jersey cows and began to sell the milk to homes in Athens, Tennessee. In the early 20's, my grandfather built the first milk plant in our area capable of pasteurizing milk. He purchased a ten-gallon ice cream freezer in 1923 and began making ice cream. Since these humble beginnings, people in East Tennessee and the Southeast have enjoyed top quality Mayfield dairy products.

Visit us at a Mayfield Visitor Center in Athens, Tennessee, or Braselton, Georgia. Browse the Mayfield gift shop and take an educational plant tour. It's fun for the family or a perfect field trip for schools, church groups and other organizations!

Tour pricing is as follows:

Ages 13 and up: $4.50
Ages 4-12: $3.50
Under 3: Free

Each tour includes a 10 minute history video, a full plant tour, and a free scoop of ice cream.

Mayfield Dairy Farms began when my grandfather, T. B. Mayfield, established Live Oak Farms in 1912. He purchased 45 Jersey cows and began to sell the milk to homes in Athens, Tennessee. In the early 20's, my grandfather built the first milk plant in our area capable of pasteurizing milk. He purchased a ten-gallon ice cream freezer in 1923 and began making ice cream. Since these humble beginnings, people in East Tennessee and the Southeast have enjoyed top quality Mayfield dairy products.

Visit us at a Mayfield Visitor Center in Athens, Tennessee, or Braselton, Georgia. Browse the Mayfield gift shop and take a free and educational plant tour. It?s fun for the family or a perfect field trip for schools, church groups and other organizations!

Come learn how our ice cream is made, sit in our milk truck, brainstorm your own ice cream flavor, milk a mechanical cow and learn about the people and culture of Turkey Hill. Discovery and delight abound for the whole family. And of course, there are free samples of Turkey Hill ice cream and iced tea!