Boy Scouts From Andover, Pack 73 Den 6
March 12th, 2008 at 9:18 pm (events)
| March 19, 2008 | ||
| 6:30 pm | to | 7:30 pm |
A group of approximately 20 will come out from Andover for an evening tour.
Current Boiling Schedule
Updated: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:01pm
***LAST SECOND UPDATE*** We have about 200 gallons of sap that we have to boil or it will go bad by tonight. So we are having a little impromptu boil for a few hours (3pm - 7pm) this afternoon. This is a special invitation to our online friends. Come join us and hang out. Not really official tours, but we will have lots of samples ;-)
Check out the nice article in the Boston Herald yesterday http://bit.ly/93z2m9
The sap run has been terrible to put it mildly. It has been too warm at night, and the 10 day forecast doesn't look much better. We are hoping something changes and we get some cold nights, otherwise we might not have much of a season.
We don't have any scheduled boils until Saturday, which is good because we don't have any sap either. Cross your fingers that by Saturday morning we get some sap so that we can boil this weekend.
Saturday, March 13: 9:00am - 4:00pm (tentative), drop in visitors are welcome.
Sunday, March 14: 9:00am - 4:00pm (tentative), drop in visitors are welcome.
If tentative is stated, it means provided that Mother Nature cooperates and provides some weather in the 40's during the day and overnight temps below freeazing. We update our voice mail at home as well, so if you are ever wondering if it's a good time to stop by, check back to our website or give us a call.
Feel free to swing by, reservations are not necessary. Park on the street not in the driveway (and please don't block any of our neighbor's driveways). You can walk up the driveway and go around the left side of the house (follow the path). You will see the lights of the sugar house. You may want to bring your boots as there will be mud on the way back to the sugar house. If the sign is up at the end of the street, we are boiling because the first and last thing we do is put up and take down the sign.
We will update this schedule every couple of days, so check back often for the latest!
Also check us out at: www.facebook.com/turtlelanemaplefarm and at:www.twitter.com/turtlelanemaple
North Andover Senior Center
March 11th, 2008 at 9:16 pm (events)
| March 21, 2008 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 11:30 am |
Several members of the North Andover Senior Center will join us.
Cub Scout Pack 32 from Acton
March 9th, 2008 at 9:31 pm (events)
| March 22, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
A group of about 19 boys and 11 parents will join us for an afternoon tour.
Boy Scouts from North Andover – Sargent’s Pack 86 Den 10
February 24th, 2008 at 6:23 pm (events)
| March 19, 2008 | ||
| 4:30 pm | to | 5:30 pm |
A group of ten Boy Scouts from Den 10 from Sargent’s Pack 86 will be joining us, along with about 20 siblings and adults.
8th Birthday Party for Joshua
February 20th, 2008 at 9:42 pm (events)
| March 15, 2008 | ||
| 12:00 pm | to | 2:00 pm |
We are hosting a birthday party for Joshua and about 10 of his friends.
Play Group from North Andover
February 20th, 2008 at 9:40 pm (events)
| March 12, 2008 | ||
| 2:30 pm | to | 3:30 pm |
Stephanie from North Andover will be coming with a play group consisting of about 10 children and adults.
Massachusetts Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired
February 15th, 2008 at 10:22 pm (events)
| March 15, 2008 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 12:00 pm |
MAPVI is a Massachusetts non-profit organization dedicated to sharing information and resources relating to visually impaired children. MAPVI is an affiliate of NAPVI, the National Association for Parents of the Visually Impaired. They joined us last year with a very large group of blind and visually impaired children, their siblings and their parents. It was one of our most fulfilling and interesting tours of the 2007 season, and we look forward to their tour again this year.
Thomson Elementary School
February 13th, 2008 at 9:14 pm (events)
| March 14, 2008 | ||
| 1:00 pm | to | 2:15 pm |
The Thomson Elementary School in North Andover will be bringing three classes of approximately 75 third grade children, along with their teachers.
Growing Places
February 13th, 2008 at 9:11 pm (events)
| March 14, 2008 | ||
| 10:00 am | to | 11:00 am |
We will be traveling to Growing Places Preschool in Lee, NH where Paul’s daughter Kaleigh attends school to give a presentation to approximately 34 preschool aged children and their teachers.
2008 Maple Month Kick-off
February 11th, 2008 at 10:43 am (events)
| March 7, 2008 | ||
| 10:30 am | to | 12:30 pm |
Hello Everyone!!
We have a very unique and exciting opportunity this year that will most-likely never happen again, and we would like to extend you an invitation to join us at this special occasion.
Each year the Mass. Department of Agriculture along with the Mass. Maple Association select a sugar house to host the Maple Month Kick-off. This is a festive event where state and local politicians as well as members of the Association and other invitees come for a ceremonial, old-fashioned tree tapping and the signing of a proclamation by the governor that “March is Mass. Maple Month.”
We are excited to announce that this year our sugar house was selected to host this unique event! We are hopeful that the governor or the lieutenant governor will be attending. Many of North Andover’s selectman and town officers will be there, as well as several state representatives and officials. We have also invited many third grade students to represent the five elementary schools in North Andover.
This should be a relatively big event considering we are the closest fully operating sugar house to Boston. We are about 15 minutes off of 95, 93 and 495, so we are conveniently located from almost everywhere.
There will be a variety of maple related foods and snacks, donated by various businesses (hopefully more to come):
- Butcher Boy Market (maple creme filled cupcakes)
- Mad Maggies (TLMF maple walnut ice cream & waffle cones with vanilla ice cream and drizzled maple syrup)
- The Loft (maple glazed pork loin)
- Eatz Restaurant (pecan waffles & regular waffles)
- Perfecto’s Caffe (maple french toast coffee & regular coffee)
- Mass Maple Association (maple cotton candy)
- Turtle Lane Maple Farm (mini-pancackes & syrup, maple cotton candy, sugar on snow)
As always, the public is welcome to come anytime when we are boiling (posted on our website) for a free tour; to learn, to taste and to have fun.
Feel free to forward this to anyone you think might be interested, we would like to share this with as many people as possible.
Here is a link to the official invitation, we would appreciate if you could RSVP so we can get an approximate headcount for the event and food.
Looking forward to seeing you,
Paul and Kathy
info@turtlelanemaplefarm.com
