Maple Hill Farms

Charming little farm store well off the beaten-​track, that is open limited hours (Friday and Saturday 10 – 5, plus «by appointment or chance»), that participates in «Maple Weeks» and is open on weekends the last two weekends of March. The sugaring features a small tour of their mid-​sized and pretty impressive boiler (call first to make sure it’s running, though, if you want to experience its full noisy hot glory) and an explanation of the sugaring process. You can also get a short hayride for a buck through part of their sugarbush (about 20 minutes). There’s not a whole lot else to do for the kids, but they do have free samples of sugar candy.
The little store itself sells lots of maple products (syrup, sugar, cream, maple nuts, maple coffee), a few other farm items (notably fresh eggs and frozen beef from the farm next door), jams, and some gifty things (very nice hand-​crafted mugs, some books, a few other miscellaneous decorative items).
It’s not huge, as I said there’s not a whole lot to do other than the boiler tour and the hayride, but it’s definitely worth a detour during sugaring season and a quick stop if you’re ambling through the countryside otherwise. Very friendly family-​run farm.
They do have an on-​line store (see URL, which I hope the Unilocal elves will add now that I’ve submitted an update) and I recommend their stuff as tasty, naturally-​grown upstate product. Worth supporting.
If you like antique stoves, this is probably worth a side trip. They have a big one in mint condition that looks well over a 100 years old.
Navigational tip: Google maps can’t find the address here for some reason; go to the corner of Grovenor’s Corner and Crommie lanes, the entrance to Maple Hill is on the south side 25 yards past the intersection on the west side; note a little hillside cemetery, which you drive past going up the drive to the farm.