Hilltop Hanover Farm and White Oak Farm Celebrate "Maple Fest"

Maple Weekends at Hilltop Hanover and White Oak Farms

By Tom McLoughlin

Looking for something exciting to do in March? Well, Hilltop Hanover Farm and White Oak Farm of Yorktown Heights have planned a fun day for the whole family. Come to Hilltop Hanover Farm for freshly grilled pancakes topped with maple syrup produced at White Oak Farm – only a mile away! Then visit White Oak Farm to see how maple syrup.

Hilltop Hanover Farm and White Oak Farm are participating in the NYS Maple Producers Association’s “Maple Weekends” being celebrated on the last two weekends of March 2018: Saturday, March 17; Sunday, March 18; Saturday, March 24; and Sunday, March 25. First, you would enjoy a pancake breakfast – featuring White Oak Farm’s maple syrup - at Hilltop Hanover Farm. There will be three breakfast seatings at 9, 10, and 11. You must make your reservations in ADVANCE, $8 for children and $10 for adults.

Last year’s breakfast was sold out so don’t delay in making your on line reservation at www.hilltophanoverfarm.org.. You may also call Hilltop Hanover Farm at (914) 962-2368 for additional information.

(The breakfast consists of freshly pancakes, White Oak’s maple syrup, bacon, juice, and coffee.) Hilltop Hanover Farm, a working vegetable farm with goats, chickens, and cows, dates back to the 1700’s and overlooks the NY watershed and provides memorable views of the Manhattan skyline.

After a hearty breakfast the farm guests will next visit White Oak Farm – just a mile away. At White Oak Farm, Bri Hart, the owner and maple syrup maker, will explain the process of how trees are tapped for sap and how this sap is converted into maple syrup. It actually takes 40 gallons of sap to produce a gallon of syrup(Hart taps 2,400 trees a year).

White Oak Farm is the southern most syrup-producing farm in New York State. In fact, Hart owns the only commercially owned sugarhouse in Westchester County. White Oak Farm’s address is 680 Croton Lake Rd. Its phone number is (914) 245-7535), and its email is bhart@whiteoakfarm1.com