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THURMAN — The seventeenth annual Thurman Maple Days, a free three-weekend event, kicks off Saturday and Sunday, March 11 and 12, continuing through March 26 in the rural town of Thurman, just 20 minutes from Adirondack Northway exit 23.
Running from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (with some variations), this year’s event offers self-guided tours to eight sites, where hosts will explain and demonstrate their respective arts.
Highlighting the event are stops at five maple farms — Mud St. Maple, Toad Hill Maple, Valley Road Maple (serving pancakes, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.), Hidden Hollow Maple, and, new this year, Candy Mountain Maple. Visitors will see sap being boiled to syrup and learn the various year-round tasks performed at a maple operation and see how the farmers manage their sugarbush for best production.
Weather permitting, Toad Hill will offer wagon rides to the sugarbush. Candy Mountain will have a learning center for kids to see how STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) helps the producers to make delicious, sustainably-farmed Maple Syrup.
Thurman Maple Days also offers stops at Nettle Meadow farm, where, weather permitting, visitors can meet and pet the resident sanctuary animals, sample internationally-awarded cheeses, and pick up a hot ham and cheese sandwich for lunch along with maple-cheese bites.
Nearby Martin’s Lumber will host artisans demonstrating and selling such items as wood-burned signs, carved birds, and show how a forge works or how mushrooms can be grown in a bucket. Also at Martins’ and at some other locations around the tour, visitors will find a collection tub for donations to the World Central Kitchen to aid its work feeding the hungry in war-torn Ukraine.
Two activities will be found at the town hall each Saturday, when postal clerks will be on hand to offer the special Thurman Maple Days dated cancellations, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., so take your stamped envelope to get yours. See, too, the town hall craft show with unique wares on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Find all details about all activities and sites in directories distributed at each site and online at www.VisitThurman.com/maple-days.
Please note that the annual Jack Wax Supper, traditionally held during Maple Days, will be held April 1 this year.
