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🏭 Made in America: Food Factories & Tours
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items Ever wonder how your favorite foods are made? I love visiting factories, farms, and production facilities where you can go behind the scenes and see the process for yourself. From candy and potato chips to maple syrup, cider, oysters, and more, these...
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A candy lover’s dream! 🍬 I loved visiting the Jelly Belly Factory and getting a behind-the-scenes look at how those colorful little jelly beans are made. It’s such a fun stop where you can learn about the candy-making process and, of course, enjoy s...
🍬 Jelly Belly Factory — Fairfield, California
I love finding unusual stops on road trips, and watching potato chips being made was definitely one of them! 🥔 I got to see the production process through the factory viewing area and learn how potatoes become those crispy Route 11 chips. And yes, t...
🥔 Route 11 Potato Chip Factory — Mount Jackson, Virginia
Ice cream and a factory tour? Yes, please! 🍦 I loved visiting the Ben & Jerry’s Factory and learning how their famous ice cream is made. One of my favorite parts of the visit was exploring the Flavor Graveyard and seeing all the retired flavors....
🍦 Ben & Jerry’s Factory — Waterbury, Vermont
There’s nothing like the smell of fresh apple cider and cider donuts! 🍎 I loved stopping at Cold Hollow Cider Mill and seeing the cider-making operation while enjoying their famous cider donuts and hot apple cider. This is such a cozy Vermont food s...
🍎 Cold Hollow Cider Mill — Waterbury Center, Vermont
I loved learning how maple sap becomes real Vermont maple syrup! 🍁 Visiting Bragg Farm gave me a look at the maple syrup-making tradition, and one of the best parts was getting to taste the different grades of syrup. Such a sweet Vermont experience!...
🍁 Bragg Farm Sugarhouse — East Montpelier, Vermont
As someone who loves oysters, getting to visit an actual oyster farm was such a cool experience! 🦪 I loved learning more about how oysters are raised and seeing where they come from before they reach the table. It made eating them afterward even mor...
🦪 Rappahannock Oyster Company — Virginia
I loved getting a glimpse behind the scenes at a working Amish dairy farm. 🐐 It was such an interesting stop where I could see the goats and learn more about the farm and dairy production. I especially love experiences like this that connect the foo...
🐐 Misty Creek Goat Dairy — Pennsylvania
Okay, this one isn’t technically food—but it absolutely belongs in the “I had no idea that’s how they make that!” category. 😂 I learned that natural luffas actually start as a vegetable growing on a vine! The free tour showed us the process from gro...
🌿 The Luffa Farm — Nipomo, California
I loved getting a behind-the-scenes look at how those little bottles of Yakult are made! The factory tour takes you through the production process and teaches you about the probiotics and how Yakult is bottled and packaged. I especially love factory ...
🥛 Yakult Factory — Fountain Valley, California
🍦 You can’t go to Texas without having some Blue Bell! I loved visiting the home of Blue Bell Creameries in Brenham and getting a look at where this famous Texas ice cream is made. Watching the ice cream production from the observation area was such...
🍦 Blue Bell Creameries — Brenham, Texas
I grew up seeing cans of Bush’s Beans at the grocery store, so it was so fun visiting where it all began! I loved learning about the history of Bush’s Beans, seeing how the company and its products have changed over the years, and exploring the inter...
🫘 Bush’s Visitor Center — Dandridge, Tennessee
A must-stop for chocolate lovers! I loved learning how Hershey’s chocolate is made and following the process from cocoa beans to the finished chocolate we all recognize. The chocolate-making ride makes it such a fun experience—and of course, being su...
🍫 Hershey’s Chocolate World — Hershey, Pennsylvania
Chocolate AND a cactus garden? Such a fun combination! I loved getting a peek at how Ethel M chocolates are made through the factory viewing area and then walking through the beautiful cactus garden outside. 🌵🍫 It’s such a unique Las Vegas-area sto...
🍫 Ethel M Chocolates Factory & Cactus Garden — Henderson, Nevada