Our season is officially underway.  Brian hung buckets from Sunday to Wednesday last week and with the warm temperatures the sap was ready to flow.  Our first boil was Friday the 10th, three days earlier than last year.  We hope we can have as decent a season as last year if the weather cooperates with some cooler breaks to keep the trees from budding early.

On another note, we’ve been getting restocked with Maple Cream Cookies and Maple Caramel Corn is on order.  And we’ll have more of the standards soon too.

Folsom’s Sugar House 2021

30^th Anniversary Season

This season we will be open selected hours both weekdays and weekends.  Hours will be posted on our website homepage and Facebook.

Our Store will be open for in person sales and Maple to Go orders for those who prefer a contact free option.  Call 603-887-3672 for Maple to Go or to have items shipped.  Most all items are listed on our Products page of the website along with prices for each.

With the continuation of the Covid pandemic all visitors, except those under 6yrs of age, will be required to wear a mask (Per NH Emergency Order #81).  The Store will have a limit of 3 customers at a time in order to accommodate proper social distancing and we ask everyone to use hand sanitizer before shopping.

And please, if you have any Covid symptoms or have been exposed to a known active case of Covid, visit us at a later date.

Holiday Open House 2019

It seems that Fall is leaving us all too soon this year.  With snows anticipated in the next few days it will feel like winter is making an early start.  But if you like the winter outdoors fun like skiing, snowmobiling and snowshoeing you can get pretty psyched at what’s to come.  

In just a few weeks we’ll be having our Holiday Open House on December 7th and 8th.  Don’t miss this years selection of our handmade and decorated fresh balsam wreathes. Brian is getting ready to get them made and Mom and I are anxious to get the decorations tucked on and bows put in place.  This year we even had a little design help from our granddaughter so it’s really great to have the next generation looking to join in the creativity.  

Don’t forget we’ll have our usual Pure Maple Syrup and products for sale along with the specialty items.  And gift giving can’t be any easier than picking up one of our Maple Gift Baskets for under the tree or for Yankee Swaps, Hostess Gifts, Coworkers and more.  How can you go wrong?

NH Maple Weekend Open House

March 24th 10am to 5pm & 25th 10am to 4pm

Once again we look forward to welcoming visitors to our sugarhouse for NH Maple Weekend.  The “tours” we offer are in the sugarhouse and FREE!  Brian goes over the maple production process from start to finish over and over all day long.  So if you come in part way through just wait a bit and he’ll come back to the beginning.  Questions are always welcome anytime.  There are trees tapped close by to check out too, both in the yard and down a short path.  (Boots encouraged for this.) And be sure to check out the Maple Leafs with Maple Trivia questions to test your maple knowledge.

In the store we’ll have a variety of samples of maple products to taste and buy.  And it would not be Maple Weekend without Maple Ice Cream Sundaes.  Those will be on sale too  ($2.00 ea) with your choice of maple walnut ice cream from Blake’s Creamery (made with real maple syrup) or vanilla ice cream for those who’d prefer that, topped with our own fresh maple syrup and real whipped cream.

As always we’ll have a special table set up with some handouts for the adults and kids in the crowd as take-aways from your visit (while supplies last).

PARKING: Crowds can be expected so please park only on the right hand, even numbered side (our side) of Candia Road or on Sheepwash Drive a short walk before you get to our place.  No parking will be allowed on the hill beyond our driveway for safety reasons.  The driveway and parking area are dirt and can be muddy so proper footwear is encouraged.

We accept Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express and Apple Pay.

For your convenience we do have a Porta-potty on site.

This season is another one to keep us guessing.  The weather in February will go on record as the warmest February ever in NH.  So let’s hope March brings some of the more seasonal winter back for us.  The snow is a good thing for us sugarmakers.  It insulates the tree roots from warming up too soon and can help with radiational cooling so we get the right freezing temperatures at night to keep the sap running when it warms back up in the day.

Maple Month starts up this coming weekend and we will have our “tours” in the sugarhouse as always.  Brian does a great job explaining the whole process from sap to syrup and more.  He also explains what equipment we use during each phase as we collect, boil and package our syrup.  There is also a Maple Trivia quiz for you to try.  Twelve Maple leafs hang on the wall, each asking a maple question.  Answers are on the back for you to see how many you get right.

There is lots of fresh syrup on hand to buy.  We have Golden, Amber and Dark to sample along with maple cream and always another maple related product.  It could be Maple BBQ Sauce, Maple Mustard, Maple Fudge or even Maple Popcorn.  There is also Maple Pepper in 4  flavors: Original, Garlic, Rosemary and Habanero (our fav).

There was plenty of sap on hand this week to boil so we have already made quite a bit of maple syrup.  Today brought out a fair number of visitors to the sugarhouse.  Lots of new faces too which is nice.  A couple of folks even picked up the DIY maple kit to try out making their own syrup.  Hope they have as much fun as we did.  Tomorrow looks like the weather will be just miserable.  Snow and sleet and maybe rain.  Oh well.  We’ll be open anyway.

Once again we have signed up to be part of Maple Month with the NH Maple Producers Assn.  But as always we will be open each weekend 12-4pm now through early April for visitors, offering tours and tastings of some maple sweets.  Maple Weekend we’ll be open too with samples and tours.  Hours will be 10-5 Sat & 10-4 Sun.  But remember that’s the only weekend we do those to-die-for Maple Ice Cream Sundaes for just 2.00.  Your choice of either vanilla ice cream or Blakes yummy maple walnut ice cream that they make with real maple syrup.  Each sundae is topped with fresh maple syrup and whipped cream.  Don’t miss it!

For your convenience we do have a Porta-Potty on site.