Tomorrow, March 25, is Maine Maple Sunday. Here is a listing of participating farms in Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. Click here for a statewide list.
Androscoggin County
Megquier Hill Farm, 260 Megquier Hill Road, Poland, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pancake breakfast all day, wagon rides, live band, maple products, taste samples, sugarhouse tours, balloons for kids. Information/directions, 998-5485, or www.harvesthillfarms.com.
Sugar Shak, 324 Bakertown Road (Route 11), Poland, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maple cotton candy, syrup, whoopie pies, soft-serve vanilla ice cream with maple syrup. Information, 576-7886.
Jillson’s Farm & Sugarhouse, 143 Jordan Bridge Road, Sabattus, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Maple breakfast 8-11 a.m. Saturday; 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Free sample of ice cream with maple syrup. Information, 375-4486 or email [email protected].
Nezinscot Farm, 284 Turner Center Road, Turner, 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Breakfast with organic Maine maple syrup from Hall Farm in Canton on our famous pancakes, waffles and crepes. Call 225-3231 or email [email protected].
West Minot Sugarhouse, 758 West Minot Road, West Minot, 7 to 11 a.m. Pancake breakfast at West Minot Grange Hall in West Minot village, $7, $1 for children under 5 for all you can eat. Restrooms available, handicapped-accessible. Information, 966-3643 or email [email protected].
C & C Sugar Bush, 479 Bailey Hill Road, Poland, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Maple syrup and candy, maples products, coffee and samples. Call 240-2764.
Washburn-Norlands Living History Center, 290 Norlands Road, Livermore, 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pancakes with syrup. For information 897-4366 or online www.norlands.org.
Cumberland County
Sweet William’s, 66 Spiller Road, Casco, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tours of sugaring operation, maple sundaes, baked beans, butter, lollipops, popcorn, cotton candy. Pancake breakfast 8 a.m. to noon at Crescent Lake Community Hall. Information, 627-7362.
Franklin County
Black Acres Farm, 123 Black Road, Wilton, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sugarbush and sap house tours, syrup tasting, maple cotton candy, refreshments. Follow the signs from Route 4 in Wilton. Information, 645-2990 or email [email protected].
Long Drive Acres Maple Farm, 319 Temple Road, Wilton, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tours of the evaporation system, samples of maple syrup on vanilla ice cream and items such as maple cream to sell. Information, 778-9618 or email [email protected].
Sweet Maple Farm, 391 Weld Road, Wilton, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Ice cream and pineapple, each with maple syrup, baked beans made with maple syrup and coffee made with maple sap. Watch syrup being made, tour the sugarbush. Information, 778-2716 or email [email protected].
Hoon’s Maple Syrup, Farmington Falls Road, Farmington. Maple syrup sold at sap house. Information, 778-4879 or email [email protected].
Maple Hill Farm, 469 Whittier Road, Farmington, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sample maple syrup and see how it’s made. Sugarbush tours, maple ice cream sundaes, other maple treats. Information, 778-4506 or email [email protected].
Oxford County
Mystic Valley Maples, Route 2, East Dixfield, Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Maple syrup and other treats. Information, 645-4481 or email [email protected].
Hall Farms, Route 2, East Dixfield. All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the old schoolhouse and showroom. Adults $8, children under 10, $4. Sugarhouse and farm tours from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Information, 888-645-4367 or email [email protected].
Abbott’s Maple Syrup, 378 Bradeen Road, Sumner. Open Saturday. The sugarhouse is nearly half a mile in the woods on a snowy, muddy trail that is uphill both ways. Call 388-2394 or email [email protected] for more information.
Cabane a Sucre Bergeron, 431 Merrill Hill Road, Hebron, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tours of farm and processing plant. Music and award-winning syrup. Call 966-2654 or email [email protected].
High Acres Maple Syrup at Oak Hill Farm, 14 Husky Haven, South Hiram. Sugarhouse open house and pancake breakfast from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Information, 625-7151 or email melanson@oakhillfarm.
Jackson’s Sugar House & Vegetable Stand, 50 Hebron Road, Oxford, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Information, 539-4613 or email [email protected].
Swift Acres Farm, 61 Hebron Center Road, Hebron. Family-run sugarhouse producing maple syrup over a wood-fired evaporator. Information, 966-2010 or email [email protected].
Thurston Family Farm, 45 Mineral Springs Road, Peru. Pancake breakfast by the Friends of Peru School beginning at 9 a.m. at the school in Peru village. Horse-drawn wagon rides available. Information, 562-7098 or email [email protected].
Weston’s Farm, 48 River St., Fryeburg, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Can accommodate bus tours, restrooms available, handicapped-accessible. Information, 935-2567 or email [email protected].
See this week’s Sunday edition for a story about how the warm weather has affected the maple syrup season.
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