Each spring in New Hampshire, the snow melts, the ground thaws and the birds start chirping. Most important for the state's many maple syrup producers, the sap starts running in all those maple trees. To celebrate that start to the syrup season, New Hampshire Maple Producers presents New Hampshire Maple Weekend. This year, the event is March 19-20. You can visit New Hampshire Maple Producers online at nhmapleproducers.com to view a full list of events.
BELKNAP COUNTY
• Just Maple at Green Acres Farm, 475 School St., Tilton
Hours: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Samplings of maple cream, maple milk, maple snow cones, maple kettle corn, music by Thomas Proulx, tours. Visit the milking goats and feed the animals, gift shop open. Maple syrup in glass or jugs. Maple candies, nuts and wedding favors available.
Information: 520-2373
CARROLL COUNTY
Meadow View Sugar House
141 Wakefield Road, Union
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Offering hot dogs boiled in maple sap, maple coffee, syrup sampling, maple taffy, boiling demonstrations, tapping displays and tools. Sugar on snow, weather permitting.
Information: 473-2366
CHESHIRE COUNTY
Stuart & John's Sugar House, Junction of Routes 12 and 63 Westmoreland
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Sap boiling, tours, how we make maple syrup video. Full breakfast menu including pancakes, waffles, omelets, farmer's breakfast, corn fritters and doughnuts, served all day.
Information: 399-4486
COOS COUNTY
Bisson's Sugar House, 61 Cates Hill Road, Berlin
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Tours, complementary maple sundaes. Special raffles. Celebrating our 90th anniversary.
Information: 752-1298
GRAFTON COUNTY
Pease & Carter's Scenic Valley, 20 E. Cemetery Road, Orford
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m. Serving homemade donuts and coffee. Open house. Family-operated wood-fired arch. Sugaring for over 150 years. Call about accomodations. Groups and tour buses welcome.
Information: 353-9070
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
Maple Butternut Farm
Pine Echo Road, New Boston
Hours: Saturday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free maple syrup samples, coffee and doughnuts. Demonstration of making syrup with wood burning evaporator.
Information: 487-5508
MERRIMACK COUNTY
Hutchinson Family Sugar House, 271 Hackleboro Road, Canterbury
Hours: Sunday, March 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Celebrating our 50th season! Sugaring-off party with live music and dance starting at noon. Also serving sugar on snow, maple frappes, maple candy, maple cream, donuts with maple fluff and other maple products.
Information: 783-4691
ROCKINGHAM COUNTY
•Sweet Water Maple House, 264 Tower Hill Road, Candia
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Offering a pancake breakfast for a donation. Maple syrup, maple cotton candy, maple candy, coffee, hot cider, maple nuts and more. Farm tour, name the goats contest, scavenger hunt for the kids. Live music and more. Farm fresh items to buy: chicken, guinea fowl, rabbit, raw honey, eggs and possibly day-old chicks.
Information: 587-0323 or 548-9348
STRAFFORD COUNTY
Spring Harvest Maple Farm, 220 Route 9, Barrington (Located across from the fire station on Route 9)
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sugar house tours. Samples of syrup, cream and candy. Saturday only 8-11a.m.- All you can eat pancake breakfast fundraiser for the Barrington Volunteer Fire Department. Serving pancakes, sausage, juice, coffee and our own maple syrup.Suggested donation of $5 per person.
Information: 664-2401
SULLIVAN COUNTY
Hillside Sugar Bush Farm, 13 Hunt Dr. (Route 120), Cornish
Hours: Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m to 4 p.m.
Serving sugar on snow weather permitting. Coffee and homemade doughnuts. Explanation of how syrup is made and why sap runs. Demonstrations of how tubing works on vacuum. A door prize of a gallon of fresh syrup!
Information: 542-8966
