1.
Adirondack Gold Maple Farm
74 Bear Pond Road
Here
third generation maple producers operate an old fashioned sugarhouse. They have
700 taps (600 with tubing and 100 in buckets) and a 2' x 6' wood-fired stainless
steel evaporator. Family activities are planned for both days of each weekend.
Come meet the Maple Queen and browse the Kenyons' full line of maple products.
2.
Martin's Lumber
280
Valley Road
www.PersisGranger.com/Adk_Martins.htm
Gary and Wini Martin have a one hundred acre certified tree farm with a portable
bandsaw mill, and their site is also the home of Lucyann's Stained Glass Stepping
Stones and Paper Bead Earrings. You can see these craft items and demonstrations
of the sawmill operation. They are proud to keep their sustainable resource, and
will talk to you about silviculture, explaining the principles of sustainable
forestry. They will demonstrate sawing, including selectively cut maple that was
tapped years ago. Their displays will include maple boards, showing some of the
unique and beauriful grains of the sugar maple.
3.
Valley Road Maple Farm
190 Valley Road
Sugarmakers
Mike Hill and Ralph Senecal boil in a new state-of-the-art sugarhouse. They have
1,500 taps on vacuum with reverse osmosis. Their products include syrup, cream,
candy, sugar, cotton candy, and they will open early with a pancake breakfast.
Valley Road Maple earned teh Vermont international maple syrup
contest for light amber syrup and the 2008 New York State Fairl first prize for
maple candy. They will host breakfast each morning beginning at 9 a.m. -- hot,
fluffy pancakes with pure maple syrup drizzled over the top! MMmmmmm.
4.
Toad Hill Maple Farm
151 Charles Olds Road
www.toadhillmaple.com
The Galusha
family has produced pure Adirondack Maple Products at Toad Hill for more than
30 years. Toad Hill is the largest maple producer in Warren County, with more
than 4,000 vacuum-assisted taps spread across three sugar bushes.
5. Wallaces'
Sugarhouse
312 Dippikill Road
This will be the second year
for the the Wallaces' new sugarhouse, with all new equipment, which includes a
Leader 3' x 12' wood-fired evaporator with a SteamAway. This 2,000-tap operation
carries a full line of maple products.