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Maple Weekend gives syrup producers the chance to share their product with the local community. Visitors learn about the production process, from tapping the trees to the bottle that ends up in stores.
Many maple farms, predominantly family-owned, are suffering as winters become shorter and shorter. It means the time frame for making the syrup is shrinking.
State officials point out that New York is second only to the state of Vermont in maple production.
Farmer Ben Simons, along with Kyle and Gordon Tibbitts, the fifth generation of maple producers at Tibbitts Maple in New Hartford, spoke at the Oneida County Board of Legislators meeting on Wednesday about Maple Weekend.
All things maple will be spotlighted as Maple Weekends are celebrated across the state this weekend and next.