Here's your guide to local maple syrup producers who will open their sugarhouses for Maine Maple Sunday, March 22. Many will also be open Saturday, March 21.
Waldo County
Beaver Hill Plantation
Steve Bennett
130 Sibley Road, Freedom, ME 04941
Wagon rides, live boiling and syrup making demonstrations, ice cream with maple syrup, homemade bars and cookies, baked beans, coffee and hot chocolate, maple syrup for sale. Sugarbush tours, school tours. Restrooms, additional parking available. March 21-22, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 382-6129 or 487-1445
Email: beaverhillplantation@gmail.com
Bradstreet Maple Farm
Mark Bradstreet
69 Peters Road, Searsmont, ME 04973
Log cabin sugarhouse. Free samples, demonstrations, maple syrup and related products for sale, look for signs. Self-guided sugarbush tours and handicapped accessible. March 22, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Phone: 441-8801
Email: mark@bradstreet.com
Web: getrealmaine.com
Ducktrap Valley Maple Farm
Richard Sibley Lenfest
153 Dickey Mill Road, Belmont, ME 04952
Sugaring the flat land of a river valley with a sugarbush and red maples. Cross-country skiing and snowshoeing available on historic Olde Dickey Road and in Ducktrap River Preserve. Home-baked/cooked maple-sweetened products from our own recipes include pies, maple apple butter, wild Maine blueberry maple syrup, and baked beans. Sugarbush tours, restrooms, handicapped accessible. March 21-22, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 342-3179
Email: ducktrapvalley@local.net
Web: getrealmaine.com
Ireland Hill Farm
Jerry Ireland
282 Nickerson Road, Swanville, ME 04915
Certified: Homegrown by Heroes
Come visit our new sugarhouse on Maine Maple Sunday! Farm tours, sugarbush tours, school and bus tours. Come on Saturday for a special day of hands-on farm experiences for kids. March 21-22, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Phone: 322-7625
Email: jireland247@hotmail.com
Web: irelandhillfarms.com
Kinney's Sugarhouse
200 Abbott Road, Knox, ME 04986
Walking tours of our sugarbush; maple syrup production inside the sugarhouse. Maple cotton candy tent. Local vendors including a food truck. Farm tours, sugarbush tours, restrooms, handicapped accessible. March 21-22, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 568-7576
Email: info@mapleconfections.com
Web: mapleconfections.com
Simmons and Daughters Sugar House
Chris Simmons
261 Weymouth Road, Morrill, ME 04952
Join us in our timber frame sugar house overlooking Camden Hills with a wood-fired evaporator, serving free ice cream with maple syrup. Will have maple syrup, candy, whoopie pies, cotton candy and hotdogs cooked in sap for sale. Farm tractors for kids to check out, door prizes and a raffle. March 22, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 342-2444
Email: johndeer2@fairpoint.net
Web: Facebook.com
Nearby: Somerset County
Eureka Farms
Hollis Edwards of Winterport and son Seth Edwards
220 Shy Road, Palmyra ME 04965
Horse-drawn sleigh rides, food concessions, Gifford’s ice cream, cotton candy, product sampling, boiling sap, fun for the entire family. Sugarbush tours, wood-turning demonstrations, restrooms, handicapped accessible. March 21-22, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Phone: 944-2186
Email: quesal12@gmail.com
Web: eurekafarmsmaine.com
Nearby: Knox County
Blueberry Fields Bed and Breakfast
673 Razorville Road, Washington, ME 04574
Kicking off our first year as maple syrup producers. Self-guided sugarbush tours, syrup-making demonstrations in the sugarhouse. Free samples of our syrup on ice cream, and home-made maple syrup goodies for purchase. Restrooms. March 21-22, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Phone: 446-2408
Email: blueberryfieldsbandb@gmail.com
Riley Sandbox Sugar
73 Warrenton Road, Glen Cove, ME 04846
Music, pancakes and sledding. Campfire, campus tours and accessible to sugaring trail. Wear mud boots and come enjoy the fields, pond and trail. Restrooms available; handicapped accessible. March 22, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Phone: 930-9995
Email: info@rileyschool.org
Web: rileyschool.org
Sparky’s Moody Mountain Maple
130 High St., Hope, ME 04847
Sugaring demonstration with free samples of maple syrup on waffles and ice cream. Farm tours, sugarhouse tours and demonstrations. March 21-22, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Phone: 831-5085
Email: sparky@tidewater.net
For a map of sugarhouses and a downloadable list by county, visit mainemapleproducers.com/maine-maple-sunday-map.html.
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