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Senator Griffo's Weekly Column #10: Maple Weekend Is Coming
Joseph A. Griffo
March 6, 2014
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ISSUE:
- Agriculture
- Small Business
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Mark your calendars for March 22-23 and March 29-30. Maple Weekend is almost upon us!
This is your chance to get a first-hand look at how maple products are made, from the tree tap to the table. New York is the nation's second largest maple producer, producing a whopping 18 percent of America's entire output.
Maple production is ramping up, too. During the 2013 season, New York's maple producers used 2.2 million taps - the largest amount since just after World War II.
There will be more than 100 locations celebrating Maple Weekend this year. Here's a list of agribusinesses that are participating in my district. Admission to all events are free, not including the cost of pancake breakfasts.
LEWIS COUNTY
Moser's Maple
9609 Croghan Resorvoir Rd
Croghan, NY 13327
Phone: (315) 346-6628 / (315) 486-7933
Moser's Maple is offering a demonstrations of its reverse-osmosis machine and its maple confections maker and, weather permitting, a self-guided woods tour. All products, including the "award-winning, melt-in-your-mouth maple candy," will be for sale.
Open: March 22, 23, 29 & 30
Moser's Mapleridge Farm
3981 Wilson Road
Copenhagen, NY 13626-3530
Phone: (315) 688-2518
Moser's Mapleridge Farm is offering tractor and wagon rides to the sugarbush, snowshoeing and a sap gathering demonstration. There are samples of their maple syrup, sugarcakes, maple cream and granulated sugar to try.
Open: March 22 & 29
Oswegatchie Educational Center
9340 Long Pond Road
Croghan, NY 13327-2525
Phone: (315) 346-1222
The Oswegatchie Education Center is a year-round educational and recreational retreat center. It offers opportunities to learn about sugar bush and maple history, as well as the methods different generations used to harvest sap. There are free samples of syrup and maple products are available for sale.
Open: March 22, 23, 29 & 30
Pierce's Sugar Spigot
11603 Route 812
Croghan, NY 13327
Phone: (315) 543-2980 / (315) 286-7999
Pierce's Sugar Spigot is offering guided tours of its facility, its tubing/vacuum system and its property. You can watch sap get boiled into syrup, while sampling all of the Sugar Spigot's products, including syrup, sugarcakes, maple cream, maple butter, maple lollipops, maple-coated peanuts and even maple snocones.
Open: March 22, 23, 29 & 30
Swiss'er Sweet Maple
6242 Swiss Road
Castorland, NY 13620-1244
Phone: (315) 346-1034 / (315) 286-1095
Swiss'er Sweet Maple will offer guided tours demonstrating the entire maple process from tree to table. They are also giving out free samples of their maple cotton candy. Treats can be purchased as well.
Open: March 22, 23, 29 & 30
Yancey's Sugarbush
7981 Long Pond Road
Croghan, NY 13327-2508
Phone: (315) 346-6356
Yancey's Sugarbush still gathers sap the traditional way - with two teams of horses pulling sleighs or wagons. Two wood-fired evaporators boil the sap into syrup and everything is packaged fresh. They also offer maple cream, sugarcakes and granulated sugar.
Open: March 29-30
ONEIDA COUNTY
Tibbitts Maple
8874 Tibbitts Road
New Hartford, NY 13413-5228
Phone: (315) 793-3114 / (315) 794-2752
Tibbits Maple will be canning syrup during Maple Weekend.
Open: March 22-23
V.V.S. FFA Maple Market
Vernon-Verona-Sherrill High School
5275 State Route 31
Verona, NY 13478-2913
Phone: (315) 829-2520 / (315) 335-0887
The V-V-S FFA is serving a pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m. until 1 p.m. in the High School cafeteria. Visitors can also take a free, student-guided wagon ride to a sugarbush and maple sap house and watch all steps of syrup production.
Open: March 22, 23, 29 & 30
ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY
Fine-n-Dandy
2620 County Rt. 35
Norwood, NY 13668
Phone: (315) 528-4700 / (315) 388-4149
Fine-n-Dandy is offering free samples of maple sugar and maplecream and syrup. They'll also educate visitors on the concept of forest management.
Open: March 29-30
Finen Maple Products
529 Austin Ridge Rd
Norwood, NY 13668-3118
Phone: (240) 405-2231 / (301) 524-8628
Finen Maple Products is offering buggy rides through the sugar woods, weather permitting. They will also have free samples of maple items and syrup for sale.
Open: March 22, 23 & 29
Parker Maple Farm
2591 County Road 21
Canton, NY 13617
Phone: (315) 212-2399 / (315) 212-6780
Parker Maple Farm is offering tours of the sugar house, maple candy and maple cream making demonstrations and, weather permitting, a boil on their wood-pellet evaporator. Samples of syrup and maple confections will be available.
Open: March 22-23
Sweeter Creations Sugar House
348 Pearson Road
Madrid, NY 13660-3114
Phone: (315) 322-5535
Sweeter Creations will demonstrate its tap collection process and will offer maple syrup, maple cream, molded maple sugar and granulated maple sugar for sale.
Open: March 22, 23, 29 & 30
The Orebed Sugar Shack
503 Ore Bed Road
De Kalb Junction, NY 13630-3109
Phone: (315) 347-3415 / (315) 528-2450
The Orebed Sugar Shack will offer free guided tours of its operation and free samples of maple syrup, maple cream and maple candy. There's also free face painting, horse drawn wagon rides, chainsaw carving and even alpacas! Raffles and coloring contest will also be ongoing.
Open: March 22, 23, 29 & 30
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