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Visit www.mapleweekend.com for more information
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2009 Maple Weekend™ participating producers are offering New York Grade A Medium Maple Syrup in several sizes for sale through this website. Also available - granulated maple sugar, maple cream, and NEW Maple Weekend™ Tea and Coffee . BUY NOW >>>
Read "Promoting Maple: Producers Kick Off Maple Season" in The Post-Journal- March 7, 2009
Read "How Sweet it is!: Maple Season Under Way " in The Observer - March 07, 2009
Read "Maple farmers prepare for syrup season" in The Post-Standard-February 16, 2009
Scenes from 2009 Maple Weekend
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Syrup tasting room at Vinewood Acres Sugar Shack, Westfield. |
Season kick off in western NY March 6 - Official tree tapping by members of the Chautauqua County legislature and the County Administrator while local media and maple producers watch. |
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Rathbun's Maple Sugar House in Whitehall, NY. |
NYS Ag. Commissioner Patrick Hooker taps a tree. |
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Commissioner Hooker reads Governor’s proclamation while David Campbell and Sen. Betty Little look-on. |
Tree tapping attendees peer through the steam generated from below. |
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WNYV interviews Sen. Little and Comm. Hooker. |
Attending to the boiling sap. |
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Commissioner Hooker hands Dwayne Hill of Shaver Hill Farm the Governor's proclamation after their tree tapping |
Families wait for the horses to be prepped for wagon rides. |
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Horses at Shaver Hill Farm get "dressed " for wagon rides |
Young sugarmaker Teresa Link, Taberg, demonstrating open fire evaporation. |
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Sugarmaker Micah Scobie, Delancey, checking sugar content. |
Welcome to The Orebed Sugar Shack, De Kalb Junction. |
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Making tasty purchases at Pierce's Sugar Spigot |
Sen. Joe Griffo with NYS Maple Queen & Princess and other royalty. |
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Maple Weekend sponsor Viva-brand paper towels at Sprague’s, Portville. |
Maple-goers watch a cooking demonstration |
Scenes from 2008 Maple Weekend
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Read "Plenty on tap at Arnot Forest, Nature Center in '08 Maple Weekend" in Ithaca Journal- March 10, 2008
Read "Commissioner Hooker Celebrates NY's Maple Season"-NYS Dept. of Ag & Market News-March 12, 2008
View slide show (produced by the Associated Press) on making maple syrup - featuring Larry Benson at his sugar house is in New Lebanon, Columbia County, NY >>>
NEW! Read story and watch video of "Maple Syrup production expected to be on the rise this year in Central New York", by Evan White, March 25, 2008, WKTV
Scenes from previous years' events
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| Eric Randall of Alexander explains the boiling process to visitors on Maple Weekend. | Merle Maple Farms is one of the maple producers across New York offering horse and wagon rides into the sugarbush on Maple Weekend. |
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| Earl Parker tapping a tree with grandson (and 5th generation sugarmaker) Joshua Michael Parker, 2, in preparation for Maple Weekend on the Parker Family Maple Farm in West Chazy. Earl Parker transplanted this tree to his farm about 20 years ago. | Well worth the wait! People in line to be seated at Cartwright's Maple Tree Inn pancake breakfast in Allegany County. The Maple Tree Inn served its first pancakes and maple syrup in 1963; and began the original maple operation in the 1850’s with seven small evaporators. |
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NOW AVAILABLE!
Media Kit
Download fact sheets, press releases, images and logos >>>
Activity sheets for kids
Download favorite pages from the new Maple Weekend Coloring Book (3.36 MB pdf)
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last updated March 3, 2010