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Vermont’s unusual stores make production part of the public experience, from river-powered craft to playful factory tours and seasonal farm work. Simon Pearce — Quechee combines glass and pottery retail with live glassblowing, dining, and falls views inside a turbine-powered Quechee mill. Vermont Teddy Bear Factory turns bear making into a colorful Shelburne shop, design studio, and guided factory visit. Near Montpelier, Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks joins maple retail and creemees to a sugarhouse, trail, film, animals, and folk art. These profiles show three ways Vermont makers welcome visitors; the complete directory follows below.
VTWaterbury, VT
Ben & Jerry’s public-facing Waterbury factory combines a Scoop Shop and gift retail with guided production-overlook tours, samples, a playground and the seasonal Flavor Graveyard.
Ben & Jerry’s Waterbury destination joins ice-cream and gift retail to guided factory-overlook tours, samples and seasonal grounds attractions.
VTWaterbury Center, VT
A Waterbury Center market where cider, doughnuts and Vermont pantry goods share a free self-guided mill visit with a working press, doughnut-making views, café, hard cider and an observation beehive.
Cold Hollow Cider Mill combines a Vermont market and bakery with a working cider press, self-guided mill visit, café, hard cider and production viewing.
VTMiddlebury, VT
Danforth’s Middlebury flagship places a complete pewter retail line beside workshop viewing windows where visitors may see spinning, mold carving and a century-old lathe in use.
Danforth’s Middlebury flagship combines pewter gifts, jewelry and home goods with window views into the company’s working workshop.
VTMontpelier, VT
A Montpelier maple farm where a country store and year-round maple creemees share the property with a seasonal sugarhouse, sugaring-film theater, maple trail, farm animals and folk-art displays.
Morse Farm combines maple and Vermont retail with year-round creemees, a seasonal working sugarhouse, sugaring exhibits, a maple trail and farm grounds.
VTQuechee, VT
A turbine-powered mill above the Ottauquechee River where glass and pottery retail shares the historic building with live glassblowing, a restaurant and views over the falls.
Simon Pearce’s Quechee mill combines handmade glass and pottery retail with a working glassblowing studio, riverside restaurant and turbine-powered historic setting.
VTShelburne, VT
A brightly colored Shelburne factory where a bear shop and hands-on Design Studio share the property with ticketed tours through cutting, stitching, stuffing and assembly.
Vermont Teddy Bear’s Shelburne factory pairs plush retail and a make-your-own Design Studio with guided views of bear production.