Maple Festival

2026 Date TBA

9am-4pm

Event will run rain or shine!

Admission: $20.00/ Person- includes pancake lunch

Children 2 and under: Free (does not include lunch, additional food available for purchase)

We've partnered with Camphill Communities Ontario to host our 4th annual outdoor Maple Festival! Making maple syrup at Camphill Communities has been a community tradition for 40 years. Scheduled for March 15 & 16, 2025 at Drysdale's Tree Farm, this Maple Festival will offer a chance for families and the community to experience the Ontario tradition of making maple syrup.

Visitors will be able to see traditional sugaring demonstrations, tour a sugar bush, ride in a horse drawn wagon, and experience maple taffy making. There will even be a pancake breakfast to taste Camphill's delicious maple syrup. Shop in the Evergreen Store and browse our unique selection of seasonal gifts and decor. Please, join Camphill and the Drysdale's family in sharing this sweet annual tradition together.

As this is only our fourth year running this event, please pre-register at the bottom of this page so we can have a rough estimate of attendance. The time slots are for estimated arrival time, there is no time limit on how long you can spend at the farm!

Included in Admission:

Horse Drawn Wagon Rides to the sugar bush	Pancake Lunch (includes pancakes, fresh maple syrup and a beverage) NEW: Pancake lunch will be served from our Greenhouse, with indoor seating!	Sugar Bush-See how maple sap is collected and turned into syrup!
Bonfire + Marshmallow Roasting	Make Maple Taffy on the snow	Lawn Games
Face Painting	Live buskers	...and more!

**Pets are welcome, but must be well behaved and on a leash at all times. Please clean up after your pets**

About our partners:

Camphill Communities Ontario

Camphill is a not for profit organization dedicated to creating unique and inspiring residential, vocational and learning opportunities for people with cognitive and developmental disabilities in both rural and urban settings in Simcoe County. Their Maple Syrup Social Enterprise offers opportunities for adults with disabilities to be involved in maple syrup production and sales in a variety of different roles; be it through forest management, maple syrup collection and production, product development, research, or sales and marketing, Camphill's Maple Syrup Social Enterprise encourages engagement at multiple levels and offers opportunities at every step along the way. Click here to learn more!

*Pre-registration is only to give us a sense of how many people to expect to ensure we don't run out of pancakes. No payment is taken until you arrive at the farm the day of the event.