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Thurman Maple Days

March 12, 2022 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Visit maple producers and farms in Thurman, NY Saturdays and Sundays in March!

Participating farms will have tours and demonstrations to celebrate maple season and agriculture in the southern Adirondacks.

March 12 &13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 from 10am – 4pm

Farms Participating:

  1. Toad Hill Maple Farm
  2. Valley Road Maple Farm
  3. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm
  4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm
  5. Mud St. Maple
  6. Blackberry Hill Farm
  7. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans
  8. Nettle Meadow Farm and Artisan Cheese
  9. Rustic Acres Farm

More Info from visitthurman.com

“1. Mud Street Maple

269 Mud Street, 12810 – 10 am to 4 pm
Get Directions

One of Thurman’s newer maple operations, Mud St. Maple, is rapidly making a name for itself with its products, especially their Bourbon maple syrup, maple-glazed walnuts, raspberry maple cream and several infused maple syrups. Robin and Jeff Mahler have been tapping and boiling, with great help from family and friends, for about 10 years, and recently built their sugar house on Mud Street. It’s a family operation and a labor of love. Says Robin, “We are passionate about our maple farm.” They will prove their passion this March by welcoming guests both early and late each day, probably as early as 9 or as late at 6. Says Robin, “If steam is coming out of the sugar house, you are welcome to stop in. We love visitors!”

 

2. Blackberry Hill Farm

15 Mud St., 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Blackberry Hill Farm is a diversified family farm that has earned certified organic status. Although recently they have dropped the “certified“ designation, they still continue to run their operation organicly. They offer vegetables and herbs; (when in season),  also organic chicken, non-GMO pork and grass-fed beef, along with their full line of organic breads, sourdoughs, English muffins, pretzels and more. This time of the year it’s pretty quiet at the farm but they are gearing up for spring and the spring litters. Stop by the new farm stand and see their stocked freezers and grab a whole chicken , bacon , sausages and more. Plus see what other local items stocked in the farm stand: Upper Hudson coffee, local honey, granola from Toganola, junbucha and more. Bring a cooler and stock up on some of your favorites. Due to the icy and muddy conditions,  this farm will not be offering personal tours during Thurman Maple Day.

3. Toad Hill Maple Farm

137 Charles Olds Road, 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

The Galusha family has produced pure Adirondack maple products at Toad Hill Maple Farm for more than 50 years. In 2011 they opened their large new timber frame sugar house, which includes a new energy-efficient process for producing pure maple syrup utilizing a wood-fired evaporator, a reverse osmosis machine and large stainless steel tanks. Toad Hill manages nearly 900 acres of timberland and gathers sap from more than 3,000 sugar maple trees. Toad Hill’s tour guides will walk you through the maple operation and give you a wagon ride over the timber frame covered bridge and out through the sugar bush. You will learn how they manage their forest, how they get the sap from the trees to the sugar house, how they process the sap into pure maple syrup and some history of the maple industry and maple production at Toad Hill. Pure maple products produced in the Toad Hill confections kitchen include; maple cream, maple sugar and melt-in-your-mouth maple candies.  In addition to pure maple syrup Toad Hill makes bourbon barrel aged maple syrup and rye barrel aged maple syrup. Maple specialty products include; maple caramel corn, maple frosted nuts, maple pecan granola, maple cotton candy and baked goods including warm donuts with maple dip.  Enjoy samples and browse the expanding list of products in the farm store which includes maple tea, maple coffee, cookbooks, t shirts, sweat shirts, hats and other non-maple items like hand crafted ceramic mugs and syrup pitchers.”

 

4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm

74 Bear Pond Rd

Get Directions

Adirondack Gold Maple Farm, now run by Marc and Cheryl Kenyon, is set on part of the land settled by generations of the  Kenyon family. The old sugaring shack has now been relegated to wood storage, and the modern evaporator in the new sugar house now does the work of turning sap into syrup. Marc has many taps on tubing, but reserves some trees near the sugar house for hanging traditional buckets, so kids and adults alike can see the charming (more labor-intensive) way of collecting sap. Marc, known for years on the Maple tour as “Tapper” enjoys showing kids (and adults!) how sap drips from the tree into the buckets, and sometimes the kids help empty the buckets into a collecting vat so they can be rehung on the trees. There are always fun activities at Adirondack Gold – like snow-shoeing, if the weather cooperates. The sugarhouse is full of sweet smells and great things to buy, so be sure to go in to say “Hi” to Cheryl and check out the maple wares for sale.

5. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans Market 

280 Valley Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Get in out of the cold!  The saw-mill is shut down for the winter, but activities continue at Martin’s Lumber in their various workshops and home, where they host the Artisan Market.  Tour the shops where friends and neighbors join them for hands-on activates, demonstrations and sales. Wood-burning/pyrography is the art of burning wood. Pyrography artist, James Martin of Pi.Rho.Dsine will demonstrate his art and take special orders.  Gail Seaman of Clendon Brook Creations will demonstrate techniques used to create beautiful unique greeting cards. Fortunate recipients of these cards treasure them for years. Potter Diane Cubit, whose designs showcase her Abenaki heritage and are also heavily influenced by the flora and fauna unique to the Adirondack Mountains and its waterways, will have a large display for viewing and sale.  Laurie West of Empty Nest Sud-drome is back, selling her famous cold processed soaps, shampoo and conditioning bars, body butter sugar scrubs, lotion bars, lip balm and bath balms. Repurposing is a crafty specialty of Rose Slemp who will join us this year with a showcase of unique and one-of-a-kind holiday decorations and home décor items. We are thrilled to have Jim Ferris of Wax ‘n’ Wix back, bringing his candle making supplies with an opportunity to make your very own candle. Offering a choice of shapes, scents and colors; in no time at all you will have made your very own candle. Ed Braley, an artist and seasoned forager, will bring his art and some of his bounty here to share, including a variety of mushrooms, handcrafted salts, seasonings, extracts and tinctures. Owners Gary Martin and Wini Martin will be on hand, Gary working on the forge in the metal shop and Wini with paper bead jewelry and offering a chance to make your own beads and bracelets. Throughout the day demonstrations and hands-on activities continue for the whole family.

 

6.  Nettle Meadow Farm

484 South Johnsburg Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions
Nettle Meadow farm and Sanctuary will offer hourly farm tours (weather permitting) and cheese tastings, and will be selling their cook booklets, telling about their nationally and inter-nationally-awarded cheese*, the animals, and the history of the place, along with the recipes. 

Land at this site has been farmed since John Thurman deeded acreage to the Johnson family, which founded Meadowbrook Stock Farm and ran it for generations. Nettle Meadow is now primarily an animal sanctuary, aging facility for cheese, and retail cheese shop. See, sample and shop their gourmet goodies. See the restored historic barn loft and all of the amazing animals from goats to highland cows, from chickens to miniature donkeys, llamas, sheep and barn cats too.  During Maple Days, enjoy cheeses and made using maple. Nettle Meadow’s cheeses are made with cow, goat and sheep milk and have won national and international awards over the last two decades..

7. Valley Road Maple Farm

190 Valley Road. 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Visitors at Valley Road Maple will get to enjoy the fist real signs of spring.  Steam billowing out of the cupola, sap pouring into the sugarhouse, and the wonderful aroma of boiling maple syrup spells the end of winter’s grip on the north.  Tours will be given to guests from the start of the process to the final product.  Explanations of the equipment and the operation will be given and questions are encouraged.  They will be able to taste raw sap, RO sap, and fresh maple syrup.  Hardy individuals  are free to walk or snowshoe through the woods and watch the sap work its way through the tubing on its way to the sugarhouse.  Coloring books with maple facts and history will be given to our young visitors. In our shop visitors will find syrup, cream, candy, sugar, maple roasted nuts, maple peanut brittle and maple cotton candy. first prize for
We regret that Valley Road Maple will be unable to offer a pancake breakfast this year. Watch for notices about a new breakfast location.

 

8. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm

312 Dippikill Rd.  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Three generations of the Wallace family work together to produce pure Adirondack maple syrup, maple cream, delectable maple candies, and many specialty products such as maple jelly, cinnamon maple sugar. maple pepper and much more. Old meets new in this operation, with a traditional wood-fired evaporator processing sap already reduced by reverse osmosis. The Wallaces have expanded their operation to over 6,000 taps. Like Hidden Hollow Maple Farm on Facebook.

 

9. Rustic Acres

107 Huber Rd.  10am to 4pm

Meet Todd and Flo and see their displays of farm implements. They will demonstrate the forgotten ways of farm life with vintage homesteading items, and will offer for sale many farm goods: maple baked goods, meats, eggs, jams and jellies. Participate in a hands-on demonstration of vintage kitchen utensils. See how to grind grain into flour and coffee beans into grounds.

Please, no pets on property. Dress for the weather; boots are a must.”

 

Details

  • Date: March 12, 2022
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Visit maple producers and farms in Thurman, NY Saturdays and Sundays in March!

Participating farms will have tours and demonstrations to celebrate maple season and agriculture in the southern Adirondacks.

March 12 &13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 from 10am – 4pm

Farms Participating:

  1. Toad Hill Maple Farm
  2. Valley Road Maple Farm
  3. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm
  4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm
  5. Mud St. Maple
  6. Blackberry Hill Farm
  7. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans
  8. Nettle Meadow Farm and Artisan Cheese
  9. Rustic Acres Farm

More Info from visitthurman.com

“1. Mud Street Maple

269 Mud Street, 12810 – 10 am to 4 pm
Get Directions

One of Thurman’s newer maple operations, Mud St. Maple, is rapidly making a name for itself with its products, especially their Bourbon maple syrup, maple-glazed walnuts, raspberry maple cream and several infused maple syrups. Robin and Jeff Mahler have been tapping and boiling, with great help from family and friends, for about 10 years, and recently built their sugar house on Mud Street. It’s a family operation and a labor of love. Says Robin, “We are passionate about our maple farm.” They will prove their passion this March by welcoming guests both early and late each day, probably as early as 9 or as late at 6. Says Robin, “If steam is coming out of the sugar house, you are welcome to stop in. We love visitors!”

 

2. Blackberry Hill Farm

15 Mud St., 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Blackberry Hill Farm is a diversified family farm that has earned certified organic status. Although recently they have dropped the “certified“ designation, they still continue to run their operation organicly. They offer vegetables and herbs; (when in season),  also organic chicken, non-GMO pork and grass-fed beef, along with their full line of organic breads, sourdoughs, English muffins, pretzels and more. This time of the year it’s pretty quiet at the farm but they are gearing up for spring and the spring litters. Stop by the new farm stand and see their stocked freezers and grab a whole chicken , bacon , sausages and more. Plus see what other local items stocked in the farm stand: Upper Hudson coffee, local honey, granola from Toganola, junbucha and more. Bring a cooler and stock up on some of your favorites. Due to the icy and muddy conditions,  this farm will not be offering personal tours during Thurman Maple Day.

3. Toad Hill Maple Farm

137 Charles Olds Road, 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

The Galusha family has produced pure Adirondack maple products at Toad Hill Maple Farm for more than 50 years. In 2011 they opened their large new timber frame sugar house, which includes a new energy-efficient process for producing pure maple syrup utilizing a wood-fired evaporator, a reverse osmosis machine and large stainless steel tanks. Toad Hill manages nearly 900 acres of timberland and gathers sap from more than 3,000 sugar maple trees. Toad Hill’s tour guides will walk you through the maple operation and give you a wagon ride over the timber frame covered bridge and out through the sugar bush. You will learn how they manage their forest, how they get the sap from the trees to the sugar house, how they process the sap into pure maple syrup and some history of the maple industry and maple production at Toad Hill. Pure maple products produced in the Toad Hill confections kitchen include; maple cream, maple sugar and melt-in-your-mouth maple candies.  In addition to pure maple syrup Toad Hill makes bourbon barrel aged maple syrup and rye barrel aged maple syrup. Maple specialty products include; maple caramel corn, maple frosted nuts, maple pecan granola, maple cotton candy and baked goods including warm donuts with maple dip.  Enjoy samples and browse the expanding list of products in the farm store which includes maple tea, maple coffee, cookbooks, t shirts, sweat shirts, hats and other non-maple items like hand crafted ceramic mugs and syrup pitchers.”

 

4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm

74 Bear Pond Rd

Get Directions

Adirondack Gold Maple Farm, now run by Marc and Cheryl Kenyon, is set on part of the land settled by generations of the  Kenyon family. The old sugaring shack has now been relegated to wood storage, and the modern evaporator in the new sugar house now does the work of turning sap into syrup. Marc has many taps on tubing, but reserves some trees near the sugar house for hanging traditional buckets, so kids and adults alike can see the charming (more labor-intensive) way of collecting sap. Marc, known for years on the Maple tour as “Tapper” enjoys showing kids (and adults!) how sap drips from the tree into the buckets, and sometimes the kids help empty the buckets into a collecting vat so they can be rehung on the trees. There are always fun activities at Adirondack Gold – like snow-shoeing, if the weather cooperates. The sugarhouse is full of sweet smells and great things to buy, so be sure to go in to say “Hi” to Cheryl and check out the maple wares for sale.

5. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans Market 

280 Valley Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Get in out of the cold!  The saw-mill is shut down for the winter, but activities continue at Martin’s Lumber in their various workshops and home, where they host the Artisan Market.  Tour the shops where friends and neighbors join them for hands-on activates, demonstrations and sales. Wood-burning/pyrography is the art of burning wood. Pyrography artist, James Martin of Pi.Rho.Dsine will demonstrate his art and take special orders.  Gail Seaman of Clendon Brook Creations will demonstrate techniques used to create beautiful unique greeting cards. Fortunate recipients of these cards treasure them for years. Potter Diane Cubit, whose designs showcase her Abenaki heritage and are also heavily influenced by the flora and fauna unique to the Adirondack Mountains and its waterways, will have a large display for viewing and sale.  Laurie West of Empty Nest Sud-drome is back, selling her famous cold processed soaps, shampoo and conditioning bars, body butter sugar scrubs, lotion bars, lip balm and bath balms. Repurposing is a crafty specialty of Rose Slemp who will join us this year with a showcase of unique and one-of-a-kind holiday decorations and home décor items. We are thrilled to have Jim Ferris of Wax ‘n’ Wix back, bringing his candle making supplies with an opportunity to make your very own candle. Offering a choice of shapes, scents and colors; in no time at all you will have made your very own candle. Ed Braley, an artist and seasoned forager, will bring his art and some of his bounty here to share, including a variety of mushrooms, handcrafted salts, seasonings, extracts and tinctures. Owners Gary Martin and Wini Martin will be on hand, Gary working on the forge in the metal shop and Wini with paper bead jewelry and offering a chance to make your own beads and bracelets. Throughout the day demonstrations and hands-on activities continue for the whole family.

 

6.  Nettle Meadow Farm

484 South Johnsburg Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions
Nettle Meadow farm and Sanctuary will offer hourly farm tours (weather permitting) and cheese tastings, and will be selling their cook booklets, telling about their nationally and inter-nationally-awarded cheese*, the animals, and the history of the place, along with the recipes. 

Land at this site has been farmed since John Thurman deeded acreage to the Johnson family, which founded Meadowbrook Stock Farm and ran it for generations. Nettle Meadow is now primarily an animal sanctuary, aging facility for cheese, and retail cheese shop. See, sample and shop their gourmet goodies. See the restored historic barn loft and all of the amazing animals from goats to highland cows, from chickens to miniature donkeys, llamas, sheep and barn cats too.  During Maple Days, enjoy cheeses and made using maple. Nettle Meadow’s cheeses are made with cow, goat and sheep milk and have won national and international awards over the last two decades..

7. Valley Road Maple Farm

190 Valley Road. 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Visitors at Valley Road Maple will get to enjoy the fist real signs of spring.  Steam billowing out of the cupola, sap pouring into the sugarhouse, and the wonderful aroma of boiling maple syrup spells the end of winter’s grip on the north.  Tours will be given to guests from the start of the process to the final product.  Explanations of the equipment and the operation will be given and questions are encouraged.  They will be able to taste raw sap, RO sap, and fresh maple syrup.  Hardy individuals  are free to walk or snowshoe through the woods and watch the sap work its way through the tubing on its way to the sugarhouse.  Coloring books with maple facts and history will be given to our young visitors. In our shop visitors will find syrup, cream, candy, sugar, maple roasted nuts, maple peanut brittle and maple cotton candy. first prize for
We regret that Valley Road Maple will be unable to offer a pancake breakfast this year. Watch for notices about a new breakfast location.

 

8. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm

312 Dippikill Rd.  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Three generations of the Wallace family work together to produce pure Adirondack maple syrup, maple cream, delectable maple candies, and many specialty products such as maple jelly, cinnamon maple sugar. maple pepper and much more. Old meets new in this operation, with a traditional wood-fired evaporator processing sap already reduced by reverse osmosis. The Wallaces have expanded their operation to over 6,000 taps. Like Hidden Hollow Maple Farm on Facebook.

 

9. Rustic Acres

107 Huber Rd.  10am to 4pm

Meet Todd and Flo and see their displays of farm implements. They will demonstrate the forgotten ways of farm life with vintage homesteading items, and will offer for sale many farm goods: maple baked goods, meats, eggs, jams and jellies. Participate in a hands-on demonstration of vintage kitchen utensils. See how to grind grain into flour and coffee beans into grounds.

Please, no pets on property. Dress for the weather; boots are a must.”

 

Details

  • Date: March 12, 2022
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Visit maple producers and farms in Thurman, NY Saturdays and Sundays in March!

Participating farms will have tours and demonstrations to celebrate maple season and agriculture in the southern Adirondacks.

March 12 &13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 from 10am – 4pm

Farms Participating:

  1. Toad Hill Maple Farm
  2. Valley Road Maple Farm
  3. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm
  4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm
  5. Mud St. Maple
  6. Blackberry Hill Farm
  7. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans
  8. Nettle Meadow Farm and Artisan Cheese
  9. Rustic Acres Farm

More Info from visitthurman.com

“1. Mud Street Maple

269 Mud Street, 12810 – 10 am to 4 pm
Get Directions

One of Thurman’s newer maple operations, Mud St. Maple, is rapidly making a name for itself with its products, especially their Bourbon maple syrup, maple-glazed walnuts, raspberry maple cream and several infused maple syrups. Robin and Jeff Mahler have been tapping and boiling, with great help from family and friends, for about 10 years, and recently built their sugar house on Mud Street. It’s a family operation and a labor of love. Says Robin, “We are passionate about our maple farm.” They will prove their passion this March by welcoming guests both early and late each day, probably as early as 9 or as late at 6. Says Robin, “If steam is coming out of the sugar house, you are welcome to stop in. We love visitors!”

 

2. Blackberry Hill Farm

15 Mud St., 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Blackberry Hill Farm is a diversified family farm that has earned certified organic status. Although recently they have dropped the “certified“ designation, they still continue to run their operation organicly. They offer vegetables and herbs; (when in season),  also organic chicken, non-GMO pork and grass-fed beef, along with their full line of organic breads, sourdoughs, English muffins, pretzels and more. This time of the year it’s pretty quiet at the farm but they are gearing up for spring and the spring litters. Stop by the new farm stand and see their stocked freezers and grab a whole chicken , bacon , sausages and more. Plus see what other local items stocked in the farm stand: Upper Hudson coffee, local honey, granola from Toganola, junbucha and more. Bring a cooler and stock up on some of your favorites. Due to the icy and muddy conditions,  this farm will not be offering personal tours during Thurman Maple Day.

3. Toad Hill Maple Farm

137 Charles Olds Road, 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

The Galusha family has produced pure Adirondack maple products at Toad Hill Maple Farm for more than 50 years. In 2011 they opened their large new timber frame sugar house, which includes a new energy-efficient process for producing pure maple syrup utilizing a wood-fired evaporator, a reverse osmosis machine and large stainless steel tanks. Toad Hill manages nearly 900 acres of timberland and gathers sap from more than 3,000 sugar maple trees. Toad Hill’s tour guides will walk you through the maple operation and give you a wagon ride over the timber frame covered bridge and out through the sugar bush. You will learn how they manage their forest, how they get the sap from the trees to the sugar house, how they process the sap into pure maple syrup and some history of the maple industry and maple production at Toad Hill. Pure maple products produced in the Toad Hill confections kitchen include; maple cream, maple sugar and melt-in-your-mouth maple candies.  In addition to pure maple syrup Toad Hill makes bourbon barrel aged maple syrup and rye barrel aged maple syrup. Maple specialty products include; maple caramel corn, maple frosted nuts, maple pecan granola, maple cotton candy and baked goods including warm donuts with maple dip.  Enjoy samples and browse the expanding list of products in the farm store which includes maple tea, maple coffee, cookbooks, t shirts, sweat shirts, hats and other non-maple items like hand crafted ceramic mugs and syrup pitchers.”

 

4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm

74 Bear Pond Rd

Get Directions

Adirondack Gold Maple Farm, now run by Marc and Cheryl Kenyon, is set on part of the land settled by generations of the  Kenyon family. The old sugaring shack has now been relegated to wood storage, and the modern evaporator in the new sugar house now does the work of turning sap into syrup. Marc has many taps on tubing, but reserves some trees near the sugar house for hanging traditional buckets, so kids and adults alike can see the charming (more labor-intensive) way of collecting sap. Marc, known for years on the Maple tour as “Tapper” enjoys showing kids (and adults!) how sap drips from the tree into the buckets, and sometimes the kids help empty the buckets into a collecting vat so they can be rehung on the trees. There are always fun activities at Adirondack Gold – like snow-shoeing, if the weather cooperates. The sugarhouse is full of sweet smells and great things to buy, so be sure to go in to say “Hi” to Cheryl and check out the maple wares for sale.

5. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans Market 

280 Valley Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Get in out of the cold!  The saw-mill is shut down for the winter, but activities continue at Martin’s Lumber in their various workshops and home, where they host the Artisan Market.  Tour the shops where friends and neighbors join them for hands-on activates, demonstrations and sales. Wood-burning/pyrography is the art of burning wood. Pyrography artist, James Martin of Pi.Rho.Dsine will demonstrate his art and take special orders.  Gail Seaman of Clendon Brook Creations will demonstrate techniques used to create beautiful unique greeting cards. Fortunate recipients of these cards treasure them for years. Potter Diane Cubit, whose designs showcase her Abenaki heritage and are also heavily influenced by the flora and fauna unique to the Adirondack Mountains and its waterways, will have a large display for viewing and sale.  Laurie West of Empty Nest Sud-drome is back, selling her famous cold processed soaps, shampoo and conditioning bars, body butter sugar scrubs, lotion bars, lip balm and bath balms. Repurposing is a crafty specialty of Rose Slemp who will join us this year with a showcase of unique and one-of-a-kind holiday decorations and home décor items. We are thrilled to have Jim Ferris of Wax ‘n’ Wix back, bringing his candle making supplies with an opportunity to make your very own candle. Offering a choice of shapes, scents and colors; in no time at all you will have made your very own candle. Ed Braley, an artist and seasoned forager, will bring his art and some of his bounty here to share, including a variety of mushrooms, handcrafted salts, seasonings, extracts and tinctures. Owners Gary Martin and Wini Martin will be on hand, Gary working on the forge in the metal shop and Wini with paper bead jewelry and offering a chance to make your own beads and bracelets. Throughout the day demonstrations and hands-on activities continue for the whole family.

 

6.  Nettle Meadow Farm

484 South Johnsburg Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions
Nettle Meadow farm and Sanctuary will offer hourly farm tours (weather permitting) and cheese tastings, and will be selling their cook booklets, telling about their nationally and inter-nationally-awarded cheese*, the animals, and the history of the place, along with the recipes. 

Land at this site has been farmed since John Thurman deeded acreage to the Johnson family, which founded Meadowbrook Stock Farm and ran it for generations. Nettle Meadow is now primarily an animal sanctuary, aging facility for cheese, and retail cheese shop. See, sample and shop their gourmet goodies. See the restored historic barn loft and all of the amazing animals from goats to highland cows, from chickens to miniature donkeys, llamas, sheep and barn cats too.  During Maple Days, enjoy cheeses and made using maple. Nettle Meadow’s cheeses are made with cow, goat and sheep milk and have won national and international awards over the last two decades..

7. Valley Road Maple Farm

190 Valley Road. 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Visitors at Valley Road Maple will get to enjoy the fist real signs of spring.  Steam billowing out of the cupola, sap pouring into the sugarhouse, and the wonderful aroma of boiling maple syrup spells the end of winter’s grip on the north.  Tours will be given to guests from the start of the process to the final product.  Explanations of the equipment and the operation will be given and questions are encouraged.  They will be able to taste raw sap, RO sap, and fresh maple syrup.  Hardy individuals  are free to walk or snowshoe through the woods and watch the sap work its way through the tubing on its way to the sugarhouse.  Coloring books with maple facts and history will be given to our young visitors. In our shop visitors will find syrup, cream, candy, sugar, maple roasted nuts, maple peanut brittle and maple cotton candy. first prize for
We regret that Valley Road Maple will be unable to offer a pancake breakfast this year. Watch for notices about a new breakfast location.

 

8. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm

312 Dippikill Rd.  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Three generations of the Wallace family work together to produce pure Adirondack maple syrup, maple cream, delectable maple candies, and many specialty products such as maple jelly, cinnamon maple sugar. maple pepper and much more. Old meets new in this operation, with a traditional wood-fired evaporator processing sap already reduced by reverse osmosis. The Wallaces have expanded their operation to over 6,000 taps. Like Hidden Hollow Maple Farm on Facebook.

 

9. Rustic Acres

107 Huber Rd.  10am to 4pm

Meet Todd and Flo and see their displays of farm implements. They will demonstrate the forgotten ways of farm life with vintage homesteading items, and will offer for sale many farm goods: maple baked goods, meats, eggs, jams and jellies. Participate in a hands-on demonstration of vintage kitchen utensils. See how to grind grain into flour and coffee beans into grounds.

Please, no pets on property. Dress for the weather; boots are a must.”

 

Details

  • Date: March 12, 2022
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Visit maple producers and farms in Thurman, NY Saturdays and Sundays in March!

Participating farms will have tours and demonstrations to celebrate maple season and agriculture in the southern Adirondacks.

March 12 &13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 from 10am – 4pm

Farms Participating:

  1. Toad Hill Maple Farm
  2. Valley Road Maple Farm
  3. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm
  4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm
  5. Mud St. Maple
  6. Blackberry Hill Farm
  7. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans
  8. Nettle Meadow Farm and Artisan Cheese
  9. Rustic Acres Farm

More Info from visitthurman.com

“1. Mud Street Maple

269 Mud Street, 12810 – 10 am to 4 pm
Get Directions

One of Thurman’s newer maple operations, Mud St. Maple, is rapidly making a name for itself with its products, especially their Bourbon maple syrup, maple-glazed walnuts, raspberry maple cream and several infused maple syrups. Robin and Jeff Mahler have been tapping and boiling, with great help from family and friends, for about 10 years, and recently built their sugar house on Mud Street. It’s a family operation and a labor of love. Says Robin, “We are passionate about our maple farm.” They will prove their passion this March by welcoming guests both early and late each day, probably as early as 9 or as late at 6. Says Robin, “If steam is coming out of the sugar house, you are welcome to stop in. We love visitors!”

 

2. Blackberry Hill Farm

15 Mud St., 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Blackberry Hill Farm is a diversified family farm that has earned certified organic status. Although recently they have dropped the “certified“ designation, they still continue to run their operation organicly. They offer vegetables and herbs; (when in season),  also organic chicken, non-GMO pork and grass-fed beef, along with their full line of organic breads, sourdoughs, English muffins, pretzels and more. This time of the year it’s pretty quiet at the farm but they are gearing up for spring and the spring litters. Stop by the new farm stand and see their stocked freezers and grab a whole chicken , bacon , sausages and more. Plus see what other local items stocked in the farm stand: Upper Hudson coffee, local honey, granola from Toganola, junbucha and more. Bring a cooler and stock up on some of your favorites. Due to the icy and muddy conditions,  this farm will not be offering personal tours during Thurman Maple Day.

3. Toad Hill Maple Farm

137 Charles Olds Road, 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

The Galusha family has produced pure Adirondack maple products at Toad Hill Maple Farm for more than 50 years. In 2011 they opened their large new timber frame sugar house, which includes a new energy-efficient process for producing pure maple syrup utilizing a wood-fired evaporator, a reverse osmosis machine and large stainless steel tanks. Toad Hill manages nearly 900 acres of timberland and gathers sap from more than 3,000 sugar maple trees. Toad Hill’s tour guides will walk you through the maple operation and give you a wagon ride over the timber frame covered bridge and out through the sugar bush. You will learn how they manage their forest, how they get the sap from the trees to the sugar house, how they process the sap into pure maple syrup and some history of the maple industry and maple production at Toad Hill. Pure maple products produced in the Toad Hill confections kitchen include; maple cream, maple sugar and melt-in-your-mouth maple candies.  In addition to pure maple syrup Toad Hill makes bourbon barrel aged maple syrup and rye barrel aged maple syrup. Maple specialty products include; maple caramel corn, maple frosted nuts, maple pecan granola, maple cotton candy and baked goods including warm donuts with maple dip.  Enjoy samples and browse the expanding list of products in the farm store which includes maple tea, maple coffee, cookbooks, t shirts, sweat shirts, hats and other non-maple items like hand crafted ceramic mugs and syrup pitchers.”

 

4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm

74 Bear Pond Rd

Get Directions

Adirondack Gold Maple Farm, now run by Marc and Cheryl Kenyon, is set on part of the land settled by generations of the  Kenyon family. The old sugaring shack has now been relegated to wood storage, and the modern evaporator in the new sugar house now does the work of turning sap into syrup. Marc has many taps on tubing, but reserves some trees near the sugar house for hanging traditional buckets, so kids and adults alike can see the charming (more labor-intensive) way of collecting sap. Marc, known for years on the Maple tour as “Tapper” enjoys showing kids (and adults!) how sap drips from the tree into the buckets, and sometimes the kids help empty the buckets into a collecting vat so they can be rehung on the trees. There are always fun activities at Adirondack Gold – like snow-shoeing, if the weather cooperates. The sugarhouse is full of sweet smells and great things to buy, so be sure to go in to say “Hi” to Cheryl and check out the maple wares for sale.

5. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans Market 

280 Valley Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Get in out of the cold!  The saw-mill is shut down for the winter, but activities continue at Martin’s Lumber in their various workshops and home, where they host the Artisan Market.  Tour the shops where friends and neighbors join them for hands-on activates, demonstrations and sales. Wood-burning/pyrography is the art of burning wood. Pyrography artist, James Martin of Pi.Rho.Dsine will demonstrate his art and take special orders.  Gail Seaman of Clendon Brook Creations will demonstrate techniques used to create beautiful unique greeting cards. Fortunate recipients of these cards treasure them for years. Potter Diane Cubit, whose designs showcase her Abenaki heritage and are also heavily influenced by the flora and fauna unique to the Adirondack Mountains and its waterways, will have a large display for viewing and sale.  Laurie West of Empty Nest Sud-drome is back, selling her famous cold processed soaps, shampoo and conditioning bars, body butter sugar scrubs, lotion bars, lip balm and bath balms. Repurposing is a crafty specialty of Rose Slemp who will join us this year with a showcase of unique and one-of-a-kind holiday decorations and home décor items. We are thrilled to have Jim Ferris of Wax ‘n’ Wix back, bringing his candle making supplies with an opportunity to make your very own candle. Offering a choice of shapes, scents and colors; in no time at all you will have made your very own candle. Ed Braley, an artist and seasoned forager, will bring his art and some of his bounty here to share, including a variety of mushrooms, handcrafted salts, seasonings, extracts and tinctures. Owners Gary Martin and Wini Martin will be on hand, Gary working on the forge in the metal shop and Wini with paper bead jewelry and offering a chance to make your own beads and bracelets. Throughout the day demonstrations and hands-on activities continue for the whole family.

 

6.  Nettle Meadow Farm

484 South Johnsburg Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions
Nettle Meadow farm and Sanctuary will offer hourly farm tours (weather permitting) and cheese tastings, and will be selling their cook booklets, telling about their nationally and inter-nationally-awarded cheese*, the animals, and the history of the place, along with the recipes. 

Land at this site has been farmed since John Thurman deeded acreage to the Johnson family, which founded Meadowbrook Stock Farm and ran it for generations. Nettle Meadow is now primarily an animal sanctuary, aging facility for cheese, and retail cheese shop. See, sample and shop their gourmet goodies. See the restored historic barn loft and all of the amazing animals from goats to highland cows, from chickens to miniature donkeys, llamas, sheep and barn cats too.  During Maple Days, enjoy cheeses and made using maple. Nettle Meadow’s cheeses are made with cow, goat and sheep milk and have won national and international awards over the last two decades..

7. Valley Road Maple Farm

190 Valley Road. 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Visitors at Valley Road Maple will get to enjoy the fist real signs of spring.  Steam billowing out of the cupola, sap pouring into the sugarhouse, and the wonderful aroma of boiling maple syrup spells the end of winter’s grip on the north.  Tours will be given to guests from the start of the process to the final product.  Explanations of the equipment and the operation will be given and questions are encouraged.  They will be able to taste raw sap, RO sap, and fresh maple syrup.  Hardy individuals  are free to walk or snowshoe through the woods and watch the sap work its way through the tubing on its way to the sugarhouse.  Coloring books with maple facts and history will be given to our young visitors. In our shop visitors will find syrup, cream, candy, sugar, maple roasted nuts, maple peanut brittle and maple cotton candy. first prize for
We regret that Valley Road Maple will be unable to offer a pancake breakfast this year. Watch for notices about a new breakfast location.

 

8. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm

312 Dippikill Rd.  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Three generations of the Wallace family work together to produce pure Adirondack maple syrup, maple cream, delectable maple candies, and many specialty products such as maple jelly, cinnamon maple sugar. maple pepper and much more. Old meets new in this operation, with a traditional wood-fired evaporator processing sap already reduced by reverse osmosis. The Wallaces have expanded their operation to over 6,000 taps. Like Hidden Hollow Maple Farm on Facebook.

 

9. Rustic Acres

107 Huber Rd.  10am to 4pm

Meet Todd and Flo and see their displays of farm implements. They will demonstrate the forgotten ways of farm life with vintage homesteading items, and will offer for sale many farm goods: maple baked goods, meats, eggs, jams and jellies. Participate in a hands-on demonstration of vintage kitchen utensils. See how to grind grain into flour and coffee beans into grounds.

Please, no pets on property. Dress for the weather; boots are a must.”

 

Details

  • Date: March 12, 2022
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Visit maple producers and farms in Thurman, NY Saturdays and Sundays in March!

Participating farms will have tours and demonstrations to celebrate maple season and agriculture in the southern Adirondacks.

March 12 &13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 from 10am – 4pm

Farms Participating:

  1. Toad Hill Maple Farm
  2. Valley Road Maple Farm
  3. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm
  4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm
  5. Mud St. Maple
  6. Blackberry Hill Farm
  7. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans
  8. Nettle Meadow Farm and Artisan Cheese
  9. Rustic Acres Farm

More Info from visitthurman.com

“1. Mud Street Maple

269 Mud Street, 12810 – 10 am to 4 pm
Get Directions

One of Thurman’s newer maple operations, Mud St. Maple, is rapidly making a name for itself with its products, especially their Bourbon maple syrup, maple-glazed walnuts, raspberry maple cream and several infused maple syrups. Robin and Jeff Mahler have been tapping and boiling, with great help from family and friends, for about 10 years, and recently built their sugar house on Mud Street. It’s a family operation and a labor of love. Says Robin, “We are passionate about our maple farm.” They will prove their passion this March by welcoming guests both early and late each day, probably as early as 9 or as late at 6. Says Robin, “If steam is coming out of the sugar house, you are welcome to stop in. We love visitors!”

 

2. Blackberry Hill Farm

15 Mud St., 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Blackberry Hill Farm is a diversified family farm that has earned certified organic status. Although recently they have dropped the “certified“ designation, they still continue to run their operation organicly. They offer vegetables and herbs; (when in season),  also organic chicken, non-GMO pork and grass-fed beef, along with their full line of organic breads, sourdoughs, English muffins, pretzels and more. This time of the year it’s pretty quiet at the farm but they are gearing up for spring and the spring litters. Stop by the new farm stand and see their stocked freezers and grab a whole chicken , bacon , sausages and more. Plus see what other local items stocked in the farm stand: Upper Hudson coffee, local honey, granola from Toganola, junbucha and more. Bring a cooler and stock up on some of your favorites. Due to the icy and muddy conditions,  this farm will not be offering personal tours during Thurman Maple Day.

3. Toad Hill Maple Farm

137 Charles Olds Road, 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

The Galusha family has produced pure Adirondack maple products at Toad Hill Maple Farm for more than 50 years. In 2011 they opened their large new timber frame sugar house, which includes a new energy-efficient process for producing pure maple syrup utilizing a wood-fired evaporator, a reverse osmosis machine and large stainless steel tanks. Toad Hill manages nearly 900 acres of timberland and gathers sap from more than 3,000 sugar maple trees. Toad Hill’s tour guides will walk you through the maple operation and give you a wagon ride over the timber frame covered bridge and out through the sugar bush. You will learn how they manage their forest, how they get the sap from the trees to the sugar house, how they process the sap into pure maple syrup and some history of the maple industry and maple production at Toad Hill. Pure maple products produced in the Toad Hill confections kitchen include; maple cream, maple sugar and melt-in-your-mouth maple candies.  In addition to pure maple syrup Toad Hill makes bourbon barrel aged maple syrup and rye barrel aged maple syrup. Maple specialty products include; maple caramel corn, maple frosted nuts, maple pecan granola, maple cotton candy and baked goods including warm donuts with maple dip.  Enjoy samples and browse the expanding list of products in the farm store which includes maple tea, maple coffee, cookbooks, t shirts, sweat shirts, hats and other non-maple items like hand crafted ceramic mugs and syrup pitchers.”

 

4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm

74 Bear Pond Rd

Get Directions

Adirondack Gold Maple Farm, now run by Marc and Cheryl Kenyon, is set on part of the land settled by generations of the  Kenyon family. The old sugaring shack has now been relegated to wood storage, and the modern evaporator in the new sugar house now does the work of turning sap into syrup. Marc has many taps on tubing, but reserves some trees near the sugar house for hanging traditional buckets, so kids and adults alike can see the charming (more labor-intensive) way of collecting sap. Marc, known for years on the Maple tour as “Tapper” enjoys showing kids (and adults!) how sap drips from the tree into the buckets, and sometimes the kids help empty the buckets into a collecting vat so they can be rehung on the trees. There are always fun activities at Adirondack Gold – like snow-shoeing, if the weather cooperates. The sugarhouse is full of sweet smells and great things to buy, so be sure to go in to say “Hi” to Cheryl and check out the maple wares for sale.

5. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans Market 

280 Valley Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Get in out of the cold!  The saw-mill is shut down for the winter, but activities continue at Martin’s Lumber in their various workshops and home, where they host the Artisan Market.  Tour the shops where friends and neighbors join them for hands-on activates, demonstrations and sales. Wood-burning/pyrography is the art of burning wood. Pyrography artist, James Martin of Pi.Rho.Dsine will demonstrate his art and take special orders.  Gail Seaman of Clendon Brook Creations will demonstrate techniques used to create beautiful unique greeting cards. Fortunate recipients of these cards treasure them for years. Potter Diane Cubit, whose designs showcase her Abenaki heritage and are also heavily influenced by the flora and fauna unique to the Adirondack Mountains and its waterways, will have a large display for viewing and sale.  Laurie West of Empty Nest Sud-drome is back, selling her famous cold processed soaps, shampoo and conditioning bars, body butter sugar scrubs, lotion bars, lip balm and bath balms. Repurposing is a crafty specialty of Rose Slemp who will join us this year with a showcase of unique and one-of-a-kind holiday decorations and home décor items. We are thrilled to have Jim Ferris of Wax ‘n’ Wix back, bringing his candle making supplies with an opportunity to make your very own candle. Offering a choice of shapes, scents and colors; in no time at all you will have made your very own candle. Ed Braley, an artist and seasoned forager, will bring his art and some of his bounty here to share, including a variety of mushrooms, handcrafted salts, seasonings, extracts and tinctures. Owners Gary Martin and Wini Martin will be on hand, Gary working on the forge in the metal shop and Wini with paper bead jewelry and offering a chance to make your own beads and bracelets. Throughout the day demonstrations and hands-on activities continue for the whole family.

 

6.  Nettle Meadow Farm

484 South Johnsburg Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions
Nettle Meadow farm and Sanctuary will offer hourly farm tours (weather permitting) and cheese tastings, and will be selling their cook booklets, telling about their nationally and inter-nationally-awarded cheese*, the animals, and the history of the place, along with the recipes. 

Land at this site has been farmed since John Thurman deeded acreage to the Johnson family, which founded Meadowbrook Stock Farm and ran it for generations. Nettle Meadow is now primarily an animal sanctuary, aging facility for cheese, and retail cheese shop. See, sample and shop their gourmet goodies. See the restored historic barn loft and all of the amazing animals from goats to highland cows, from chickens to miniature donkeys, llamas, sheep and barn cats too.  During Maple Days, enjoy cheeses and made using maple. Nettle Meadow’s cheeses are made with cow, goat and sheep milk and have won national and international awards over the last two decades..

7. Valley Road Maple Farm

190 Valley Road. 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Visitors at Valley Road Maple will get to enjoy the fist real signs of spring.  Steam billowing out of the cupola, sap pouring into the sugarhouse, and the wonderful aroma of boiling maple syrup spells the end of winter’s grip on the north.  Tours will be given to guests from the start of the process to the final product.  Explanations of the equipment and the operation will be given and questions are encouraged.  They will be able to taste raw sap, RO sap, and fresh maple syrup.  Hardy individuals  are free to walk or snowshoe through the woods and watch the sap work its way through the tubing on its way to the sugarhouse.  Coloring books with maple facts and history will be given to our young visitors. In our shop visitors will find syrup, cream, candy, sugar, maple roasted nuts, maple peanut brittle and maple cotton candy. first prize for
We regret that Valley Road Maple will be unable to offer a pancake breakfast this year. Watch for notices about a new breakfast location.

 

8. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm

312 Dippikill Rd.  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Three generations of the Wallace family work together to produce pure Adirondack maple syrup, maple cream, delectable maple candies, and many specialty products such as maple jelly, cinnamon maple sugar. maple pepper and much more. Old meets new in this operation, with a traditional wood-fired evaporator processing sap already reduced by reverse osmosis. The Wallaces have expanded their operation to over 6,000 taps. Like Hidden Hollow Maple Farm on Facebook.

 

9. Rustic Acres

107 Huber Rd.  10am to 4pm

Meet Todd and Flo and see their displays of farm implements. They will demonstrate the forgotten ways of farm life with vintage homesteading items, and will offer for sale many farm goods: maple baked goods, meats, eggs, jams and jellies. Participate in a hands-on demonstration of vintage kitchen utensils. See how to grind grain into flour and coffee beans into grounds.

Please, no pets on property. Dress for the weather; boots are a must.”

 

Details

  • Date: March 12, 2022
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Visit maple producers and farms in Thurman, NY Saturdays and Sundays in March!

Participating farms will have tours and demonstrations to celebrate maple season and agriculture in the southern Adirondacks.

March 12 &13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27 from 10am – 4pm

Farms Participating:

  1. Toad Hill Maple Farm
  2. Valley Road Maple Farm
  3. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm
  4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm
  5. Mud St. Maple
  6. Blackberry Hill Farm
  7. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans
  8. Nettle Meadow Farm and Artisan Cheese
  9. Rustic Acres Farm

More Info from visitthurman.com

“1. Mud Street Maple

269 Mud Street, 12810 – 10 am to 4 pm
Get Directions

One of Thurman’s newer maple operations, Mud St. Maple, is rapidly making a name for itself with its products, especially their Bourbon maple syrup, maple-glazed walnuts, raspberry maple cream and several infused maple syrups. Robin and Jeff Mahler have been tapping and boiling, with great help from family and friends, for about 10 years, and recently built their sugar house on Mud Street. It’s a family operation and a labor of love. Says Robin, “We are passionate about our maple farm.” They will prove their passion this March by welcoming guests both early and late each day, probably as early as 9 or as late at 6. Says Robin, “If steam is coming out of the sugar house, you are welcome to stop in. We love visitors!”

 

2. Blackberry Hill Farm

15 Mud St., 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Blackberry Hill Farm is a diversified family farm that has earned certified organic status. Although recently they have dropped the “certified“ designation, they still continue to run their operation organicly. They offer vegetables and herbs; (when in season),  also organic chicken, non-GMO pork and grass-fed beef, along with their full line of organic breads, sourdoughs, English muffins, pretzels and more. This time of the year it’s pretty quiet at the farm but they are gearing up for spring and the spring litters. Stop by the new farm stand and see their stocked freezers and grab a whole chicken , bacon , sausages and more. Plus see what other local items stocked in the farm stand: Upper Hudson coffee, local honey, granola from Toganola, junbucha and more. Bring a cooler and stock up on some of your favorites. Due to the icy and muddy conditions,  this farm will not be offering personal tours during Thurman Maple Day.

3. Toad Hill Maple Farm

137 Charles Olds Road, 12810  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

The Galusha family has produced pure Adirondack maple products at Toad Hill Maple Farm for more than 50 years. In 2011 they opened their large new timber frame sugar house, which includes a new energy-efficient process for producing pure maple syrup utilizing a wood-fired evaporator, a reverse osmosis machine and large stainless steel tanks. Toad Hill manages nearly 900 acres of timberland and gathers sap from more than 3,000 sugar maple trees. Toad Hill’s tour guides will walk you through the maple operation and give you a wagon ride over the timber frame covered bridge and out through the sugar bush. You will learn how they manage their forest, how they get the sap from the trees to the sugar house, how they process the sap into pure maple syrup and some history of the maple industry and maple production at Toad Hill. Pure maple products produced in the Toad Hill confections kitchen include; maple cream, maple sugar and melt-in-your-mouth maple candies.  In addition to pure maple syrup Toad Hill makes bourbon barrel aged maple syrup and rye barrel aged maple syrup. Maple specialty products include; maple caramel corn, maple frosted nuts, maple pecan granola, maple cotton candy and baked goods including warm donuts with maple dip.  Enjoy samples and browse the expanding list of products in the farm store which includes maple tea, maple coffee, cookbooks, t shirts, sweat shirts, hats and other non-maple items like hand crafted ceramic mugs and syrup pitchers.”

 

4. Adirondack Gold Maple Farm

74 Bear Pond Rd

Get Directions

Adirondack Gold Maple Farm, now run by Marc and Cheryl Kenyon, is set on part of the land settled by generations of the  Kenyon family. The old sugaring shack has now been relegated to wood storage, and the modern evaporator in the new sugar house now does the work of turning sap into syrup. Marc has many taps on tubing, but reserves some trees near the sugar house for hanging traditional buckets, so kids and adults alike can see the charming (more labor-intensive) way of collecting sap. Marc, known for years on the Maple tour as “Tapper” enjoys showing kids (and adults!) how sap drips from the tree into the buckets, and sometimes the kids help empty the buckets into a collecting vat so they can be rehung on the trees. There are always fun activities at Adirondack Gold – like snow-shoeing, if the weather cooperates. The sugarhouse is full of sweet smells and great things to buy, so be sure to go in to say “Hi” to Cheryl and check out the maple wares for sale.

5. Martin’s Lumber & Artisans Market 

280 Valley Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Get in out of the cold!  The saw-mill is shut down for the winter, but activities continue at Martin’s Lumber in their various workshops and home, where they host the Artisan Market.  Tour the shops where friends and neighbors join them for hands-on activates, demonstrations and sales. Wood-burning/pyrography is the art of burning wood. Pyrography artist, James Martin of Pi.Rho.Dsine will demonstrate his art and take special orders.  Gail Seaman of Clendon Brook Creations will demonstrate techniques used to create beautiful unique greeting cards. Fortunate recipients of these cards treasure them for years. Potter Diane Cubit, whose designs showcase her Abenaki heritage and are also heavily influenced by the flora and fauna unique to the Adirondack Mountains and its waterways, will have a large display for viewing and sale.  Laurie West of Empty Nest Sud-drome is back, selling her famous cold processed soaps, shampoo and conditioning bars, body butter sugar scrubs, lotion bars, lip balm and bath balms. Repurposing is a crafty specialty of Rose Slemp who will join us this year with a showcase of unique and one-of-a-kind holiday decorations and home décor items. We are thrilled to have Jim Ferris of Wax ‘n’ Wix back, bringing his candle making supplies with an opportunity to make your very own candle. Offering a choice of shapes, scents and colors; in no time at all you will have made your very own candle. Ed Braley, an artist and seasoned forager, will bring his art and some of his bounty here to share, including a variety of mushrooms, handcrafted salts, seasonings, extracts and tinctures. Owners Gary Martin and Wini Martin will be on hand, Gary working on the forge in the metal shop and Wini with paper bead jewelry and offering a chance to make your own beads and bracelets. Throughout the day demonstrations and hands-on activities continue for the whole family.

 

6.  Nettle Meadow Farm

484 South Johnsburg Road, 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions
Nettle Meadow farm and Sanctuary will offer hourly farm tours (weather permitting) and cheese tastings, and will be selling their cook booklets, telling about their nationally and inter-nationally-awarded cheese*, the animals, and the history of the place, along with the recipes. 

Land at this site has been farmed since John Thurman deeded acreage to the Johnson family, which founded Meadowbrook Stock Farm and ran it for generations. Nettle Meadow is now primarily an animal sanctuary, aging facility for cheese, and retail cheese shop. See, sample and shop their gourmet goodies. See the restored historic barn loft and all of the amazing animals from goats to highland cows, from chickens to miniature donkeys, llamas, sheep and barn cats too.  During Maple Days, enjoy cheeses and made using maple. Nettle Meadow’s cheeses are made with cow, goat and sheep milk and have won national and international awards over the last two decades..

7. Valley Road Maple Farm

190 Valley Road. 12885 – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Visitors at Valley Road Maple will get to enjoy the fist real signs of spring.  Steam billowing out of the cupola, sap pouring into the sugarhouse, and the wonderful aroma of boiling maple syrup spells the end of winter’s grip on the north.  Tours will be given to guests from the start of the process to the final product.  Explanations of the equipment and the operation will be given and questions are encouraged.  They will be able to taste raw sap, RO sap, and fresh maple syrup.  Hardy individuals  are free to walk or snowshoe through the woods and watch the sap work its way through the tubing on its way to the sugarhouse.  Coloring books with maple facts and history will be given to our young visitors. In our shop visitors will find syrup, cream, candy, sugar, maple roasted nuts, maple peanut brittle and maple cotton candy. first prize for
We regret that Valley Road Maple will be unable to offer a pancake breakfast this year. Watch for notices about a new breakfast location.

 

8. Hidden Hollow Maple Farm

312 Dippikill Rd.  – 10am – 4pm
Get Directions

Three generations of the Wallace family work together to produce pure Adirondack maple syrup, maple cream, delectable maple candies, and many specialty products such as maple jelly, cinnamon maple sugar. maple pepper and much more. Old meets new in this operation, with a traditional wood-fired evaporator processing sap already reduced by reverse osmosis. The Wallaces have expanded their operation to over 6,000 taps. Like Hidden Hollow Maple Farm on Facebook.

 

9. Rustic Acres

107 Huber Rd.  10am to 4pm

Meet Todd and Flo and see their displays of farm implements. They will demonstrate the forgotten ways of farm life with vintage homesteading items, and will offer for sale many farm goods: maple baked goods, meats, eggs, jams and jellies. Participate in a hands-on demonstration of vintage kitchen utensils. See how to grind grain into flour and coffee beans into grounds.

Please, no pets on property. Dress for the weather; boots are a must.”

 

Details

  • Date: March 12, 2022
  • Time:
    10:00 am - 4:00 pm