THURMAN ~ WHERE NATURE IS A WAY OF LIFE

Thurman people who live off the land have found a variety of ways to benefit from nature's bounty. Whether it be grooming a sugarbush and tapping maple trees, coaxing fruits and vegetables from the rocky soil, selectively cutting trees and sawing them into lumber, raising farm animals or transforming tree branches into fine furniture, they combine creativity and hard work in this romance with nature called "farming."

Read about our 2009 event:
Visit farms all over Thurman...

Enjoy demonstrations, contests, friendly banter and delectable and decorative products.
Follow signs to the farms, or click here for the online map.
Pick up a brochure anywhere and find map on back.

Live broadcast by Froggy 107.1 !

9 a.m. Devour a pancake breakfast at Valley Road Maple Farm.

Free locator map on this site guides you to family fun. Download or contact ThurmanInfo@aol.com to have one emailed to you.

Info. 518-623-9718 or email AdkGoldMaple@aol.com.

For the safety of your pet and the animals you visit, if you travel with your dog,
PLEASE LEAVE IT IN YOUR VEHICLE.

Please check this page frequently for updates, and note individual schedule variations below.
Click here for Farm Photo Album.

Coming to Thurman on the afternoon of Saturday, October 10th?
Extend your stay with a stop at
Nettle Meadow Goat Farm's Fourth Annual Open House
Noon to 4 PM Saturday
Tours, wide variety of free food made with our award-winning goat cheese, as well as our new farmstead sheep, goat and cow mixed-milk cheeses. Tours of the farm will introduce the "new girls" this year - the sheep and cows. There will be kids' games and live music.
Due to the heavy work load on the farm and the needs of the animals, this event is limited to the hours of noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, but the cheese shop will be open on Sunday from 10 to 4.
www.NettleMeadow.com

Adirondack Ambiance, 792 NY State Route 418
At Adirondack Ambiance, find fine arts and crafts and great camp furniture. With deep respect for the land, the buildings, and the history, the present proprietor has carefully maintained what remains of the historic Stephen Griffing farmhouse, built in 1804. The lumber for our rustic furniture was selectively harvested from the property, and the sawmill used to cut the lumber was designed and built here. The furniture presented in the Adirondack Ambiance Gallery was hand-crafted in the old barn with the pioneering spirit and skills of one man. Our paintings are inspired by photos that have been taken over the years by the artist in residence, and are framed by the artist’s husband, again using gifts from the forest.

Adirondack Gold Maple Farm, 90 Bear Pond Road
Here third generation maple producers operate an old fashioned sugarhouse. They have 700 taps (600 with tubing and 100 in buckets). Read more about Adirondack Gold Maple Farm a http://www.thurman-ny.com/Directory-all.asp.

Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Marc Kenyon will guide you into the sugarbush and tell you about its development and maintenance, while Cheryl entertains you with maple recipe tips and shows you their wares. Be sure to bring the kids and let them play in the bounce house. Enter to win a big basket of goodies and pick up great new maple recipes. There will be eats here, and you'll see how the Kenyons make maple sugar.

Also on hand, Sally Feihel of Adirondack Suds and Scents, demonstrating her soapmaking, offering soap-making fun for kids and selling her soaps -- perfect holiday gifts.

Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Be sure to be on hand for a live broadcast by the gang from Froggy 107.1 FM!

Martin's Lumber, 280 Valley Road

Martin's Lumber is the site of a tree farm and portable bandsaw mill, as well as the home of Lucyann's Stained Glass Stepping Stones and Paper Bead Earrings. So you can see demonstrations of these crafts and saw mill demonstrations, in addition to taking guided woods walks (offered intermittently) where you can learn about sustainable forestry and find out how Gary and Wini select the trees to cut for milling dimensional and custom lumber, creating softwood slabs for counter tops or tables and seeking out hardwoods of various grains and coloring from many varieties of trees to create one-of-a kind products and signs. Enjoy these tours and demonstrations throughout each day.Enter your name to win a basket of items handmade at Martin's Lumber. Read more about Martin's Lumber (and signs and stepping stones and paper bead earrings at www.PersisGranger.com/Adk_Martins.htm.

Toad Hill Maple Farm, 151 Charles Olds Road

The Galusha family has produced pure Adirondack Maple Porducts 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.

Saturday and Sunday ~ 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. If your notion of "vacuum-assisted" has something to do with an Electrolux, you'll want Randy and Jill to set you straight. Stop in for tours of their sugarbush and sugarhouse and see the wide variety of maple products they offer. Learn more and see photos at www.toadhillmaple.com.

Valley Road Maple Farm, 190 Valley Road
Sugarmakers Mike Hill and Ralph Senecal have a new state-of-the-art sugarhouse. They have 1,500 taps on vacuum with reverse osmosis. Valley Road Maple is proud to show off the maple candy that earned them a first prize at the New York State Fair in Syracuse two years running! Come see their facility, take a tour and learn about their operation. You might even treat your sweet tooth to some maple cotton candy. While you are Valley Road Maple, fill out a slip for the drawing of a mailable gift box with their pancake mix, syrup, maple roasted peanuts and a box of candy. Read more at www.thurman-ny.com/Directory-all.asp.

Saturday and Sunday ~ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Pancake breakfast! enjoy hot pancakes with butter, drizzled with pure Thurman maple syrup--the perfect start to your visit to Valley Road Maple Farm. Activities continue until 4 p.m.

Whitefields' Farm, Mountain Road
Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Don and Michelle Whitefield will host pumpkin decorating, offer Hicks cider and doughnuts, give barn tours, sell all their fine products and have a yard sale. Could it get any better? Yes--they will stay open until 6 p.m. both days. Stop in and see pigs, cage-free chickens and turkeys, maple syrup and farm fresh brown eggs. Read more at www.FictionAmongFriends.com/Whitefields_Farm.htm

Please check this page frequently for updates!

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