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A C E L E B R A T I O N O F O U R R O O T S
JULY 2013
DemocratSULLIVAN COUNTY
A special supplement to the
• Diehl Farm welcomes Farmstock crowd…page 3
• Maple Farmers tour local sugarhouses…page 6
• Cornell Cooperative celebrates 100th…page 8
• Maplehorst Nursery shows the world how its done…10
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Alice and Peter Diehl stand in front of their farmhouse, dating from the early 1900s when itwas built to house boarders who came by train to Callicoon. The farm’s roots reach back muchfurther into history. “There was a log cabin here in 1842… although it probably goes backmuch further,” Alice stated.
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Avisit to the Diehl HomesteadFarm during a Farmstock eventopens one’s eyes about what it
takes to keep a farm running andearning a living in this ancient calling.
The entire Diehl family works in thefarm that dates back to at least 1842and “probably earlier,” according toAlice Diehl, whose husband Peternow works mainly with the beehives.
Their son Adam is married toAnnette, and he looks after the dairyproduction. The couple’s kids alsohelp around the farm.
In addition, Annette makes maplecotton candy, delicious maple creamthat’s maple syrup reduced to creamyconsistency, and maple sugar. Thewhole family pitches in into the run-ning of the multi-faceted farm, andthe cozy saphouse kitchen also servesas a direct outlet store for the prettybottled honey and maple products.
Farmstock day saw a steady streamof visitors, many of whom were at thefarmstead for the first time.
“Most people come back,” recount-ed Alice with a smile while seeing tothe visitors on the Farmstock day,selling the products, and preparingcheese in a large pan. The cheese was
for her family’s consumption,although “We’ve talked about makingmore cheese and butter” for selling.
“We started Farmstock as a way toeducate people about where theirfood came from,” Alice explainedabout the program. It began in 2010as part of the Sullivan County FoodNetwork.
Visitors also got to see what goesinto producing the delicious, fra-grant, real maple syrup we all love topour over pancakes.
Edward Loughrey, a neighbor whohelps out in the maple productionend at the farm, noted, “It takes about40 to 50 gallons of sap to get a gallonof syrup.”
Getting the maple trees ready forthe season starts early in late Januaryor February with wading throughsnow to check the lines that will bringthe sap to the collection containersthat then get taken to the sap housefor processing.
Diehl Farm taps about 2,500 trees ina season. In addition it offers raw nat-ural honey from over 15 bee hives,and produces milk from a 50-strong
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to New Jersey markets, Aliceexplained. Milk prices are strictly reg-ulated in the United States, and con-sequently dairy farmers across thecountry find it very hard to makeends meet. Alice said the Diehls arepart of the National Dairy
Organization that connects thou-sands of farmers across the countryto talk about their issues to try towork on the prices and regulationsfor profitability.
Alice noted that the maple syrupand honey sales help a lot in keepingAnnette and Adam’s young familygoing, despite of the milk pricing.
“At the moment, we sell everythingwe can produce,” she continued, say-
ing that they have thought aboutexpanding the maple production, forwhich there’s much demand in themetro area.
All that Diehl Homestead Farm pro-duces is pure and natural, from theraw honey straight from the hives, tothe sap from maples that grow on thefarm’s 50 plus acres, to the milk fromcows that munch on grass and feedthat is all natural grain. In addition,the consumer can visit the farm andsee how everything’s produced.
Edward and Pete described in moredetail how the syrup is made. Afterrepairing the lines that were dam-aged during the winter, “We checkthe taps every day, or every other day.Any tree over eight inches [wide], you
can put a tap; over 16 inches, twotaps,” said Ed. “The sap starts at
Maple syrup and honey in the farmkitchen/outlet store.
Visitors on Farmstock Day walking around the farm. Alexandra Iavarone from Jeffersonville,in hat at left, is talking to Peter Diehl’s granddaughter Shelby (13) who also helps aroundthe farm. The little girl beneath the tree is 4-year-old Ashley Burr. Wallace Iavarone (3) is inthe white shirt with his back to the camera. On the lower right corner is the family dog,Bonnie, who loves running around the farm.
Edward Loughrey, a neighbor who helps with the maple tapping, points to the equipment inthe saphouse where the syrup is produced. Next to him are Annette Diehl – who’s marriedto Alice and Peter Diehl’s son, Adam – and Peter.
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about two percent sugar, a little lesslater in the season. It gets heated andreduced to just the right temperatureto make maple syrup.”
Visitors on Farmstock day talkedabout their experiences. Laura Szym-czak came from New Brunswick, NJwith her son, Ted, and his friend, RyanNewell, both 9 years old.
“I already have the maple cream,”she stated, adding she uses it for fill-ing the handmade chocolates shemakes. “It’s great.”
She’s been coming back manytimes. Ted and Ryan didn’t say muchbecause their mouths were full ofmaple cream and they were grinningfrom ear to ear.
Peter Diehl inspects one of the bee hives that produces the raw honey. “Sometimes,” he saidgood naturedly, when asked if the bees sting him. The family dog, Bonnie, is ever present.
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Maple Tour highlights ‘growth industry’STORY AND PHOTOS BY
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Last week’s New York State MapleTour wound its way acrossnorthern Sullivan and western
Ulster counties as 132 registrants gota first-hand glimpse into what ourlocal maple syrup producers aredoing to get better.
Two busloads of suppliers, produc-ers, researchers and retailers enjoyedwhat they saw as they spent lastMonday and Tuesday learning aboutthe local maple industry.
“This is really impressive,” saidMike Farrell, a member of theMaple Research Center at CornellUniversity in Ithaca. “It’s incredi-ble.
“New York state is the best place inthe world to make syrup,” he said.“The trees are very healthy, we havethe best markets and easy access tomany trees.
“They have everything going for
them,” Farrell said. “This tour showswhat should be happening in theCatskills. Maple syrup production isthe fastest growing agriculturalindustry.
“There is incredible growth and lastyear was one of the biggest maplesyrup crops in history,” he said.
Participating in the tour were:• Catskill Mtn. Sugar House oper-
ated by John Garigliano, inGrahamsville;
• Justus Asthalter Maple Farmoperated by Dawn and Sean Boyes inParksville;
• Muthig Farm operated by Rayand Dot Muthig in Parksville;
• Thunder Hill Sugar Shack oper-ated by the Mickelson family inGrahamsville; and
• Frost Valley in Claryville.The tour also stopped at the Time &
The Valleys Museum in Grahams-ville.
Stephanie Caccamo and her hus-band Steve came down from East
Syracuse to join the two-day tour. “It’s so interesting, every saphouse
is different,” she said. The couple owns Next Generation
Maple Products, a full service maplesyrup equipment provider.
Also on tour was Keith and JenniferMoore from Louisa, Kentucky.
“Last year we produced 52 bottlesof syrup,” Keith said in his southerndrawl. “We are pretty proud of that.”
Conversely, the sugarhouse theywere visiting, Catskill Mtn. SugarHouse, produced 10,000 gallons, asthey tapped a record 38,000 trees.
The Moores learned about the NewYork Maple Tour through MapleNews and “wanted to learn moreproduction.”
They certainly did.The tours included an in-depth
look inside each sugarhouse witheach maple farmer detailing whatmakes their facility unique.
Glenn Goodrich from Cabot,Vermont was truly impressed.
“My family started maple syrupfarming in the 1800s in Cabot,”Goodrich, the seventh generation ofhis family to be in the business, said,“This is an excellent tour. TheGariglianos have done an excellentjob here.
“They have a state-of-the-art oper-ation,” he said.
Coming from a farmer with 50,000taps over a 45-mile radius it wasindeed high praise.
Goodrich, like many farmers in theindustry, is only too happy to helphis fellow maple syrup producers.
“I invented the device on top of theevaporator which boosts efficiency,”Goodrich said.
Also on hand to promote localproducts was Tara Luty of RoscoeBeer Company and April Hodge ofCatskill Distillery in Bethel.
Both were handing out free sam-ples, which the tour membersseemed to enjoy.
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Above, Helping with the NewYork State Maple Tour werelocal maple farmers, from theleft: Walter Garigliano, SeanBoyes, John Garigliano andDawn Boyes. The Gariglianosoperate Catskill MountainSugar House in Grahamsvillewhile the Boyes tend to JustusAsthalter farm in Parksville.At left: Keith and JenniferMoore came from Louisa, Ken-tucky to enjoy the tour.
John Garigliano, above center, talks with maple farmers about his state-of-the-art LaPierre evaporator during last weeks maple tour. Nearly 120 maplefarmers from across the Northeast and beyond were on the two-day tour.
At left, Michael Farrell,from the Maple Research Center at Cornell Universi-ty, enjoy the tour.
On the cover: John and Walter Garigliano, left and right, talk with GlennGoodrich of Cabot, Vt., a seventh generation maple farmer who helpedinvent a new and improved evaporator hood which increased the efficien-cy of boiling sap into maple syrup, thereby saving energy… and money.
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“The sooner the better,” said CCEProgram Educator and MarketingDirector Nicole Slevin at CCE’s July 12Centennial Launch Celebration.
“It’s been a tough time,” said CCEExecutive Director Greg Sandor,alluding to budget and staff cuts. “Butthe thing that’s exciting here is thepassion to move forward.”
CCE is a statewide educationalorganization tied to Cornell Universi-ty. Its many programs are funded byfederal, state and local governments.
On its website, the organizationdescribes as its “Sullivan CountyVision” to “be a gateway to knowl-edge, life skills and experiences forbetter living. We will bring togetherand partner with government, busi-ness and community based groups toserve all residents and visitors of Sul-livan County. Cornell CooperativeExtension Sullivan County will con-tinue to evolve to meet the changingneeds of the county and its diverse
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quality programs and staff have setgenerations of local families on adecidedly agricultural path. Familieslike the Kaplans of K-Brand Farm(a.k.a.Egg U) fame. Or the Myerses,who’ve been farming in SullivanCounty for nearly 200 years.
With the Extension’s future a majortopic at the “early centennial” event,on hand was a part of CCE’s past andpresent, Earl Myers, who’s upheldhis family’s 170-year farming tradi-tion.
“A major part of my farm has beeninvolved in some way with CornellCooperative Extension… I want tosee the next generation enjoy thesame,” Myers said.
Also present to kick off CCE’s cen-tennial was Assemblywoman AileenGunther. State Senator John Bonacicsent representative Linda Cellini tothe festivities, which featured foodby Natural Contents, live music, anda raft of speakers that included Leg-islative Chairman Scott Samuelsonand Sullivan County Historian JohnConway.
With the backdrop of a tougheconomy, CCE seems to be rebound-ing and announced several new ini-tiatives, the first of which was theExtension’s plan to allocate five of
the 23 acres comprising its campusfor the creation of a maple syrupfarm.
CCE is also planning a “communi-ty kitchen” where food producers inneed of facilities can ply their trade.
But perhaps the event’s biggestdevelopment was the announce-ment by Fred Bach – nephew to for-mer CCE Director Earl Wilde – of a$50,000 endowment named for hislate uncle and his wife, Elizabeth.The news got even better for CCEsupporters when it was additionallyannounced that a yet-to-be-nameddonor would be matching Bach’sgenerous gift.
Summing-up the CCE’s impor-tance to this area, Board PresidentJoan Howard said, “The last 100years of Cooperative Extension havetouched the lives of thousands andthousands of people here in SullivanCounty.”
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The Christmas tree nursery –which had been operating since thelate 1920s – attracted more than 200industry folk for daylong tours ofthe sprawling facility, whichincludes more than 30 acres of allvariety of fir trees and saplings.
“They came from all over the area,and as far as Massachusetts,Vermont and Maryland,” offeredfourth generation grower and co-owner Karen Rapp. “They came tolearn about our farm and how weoperate here. We even got to showoff the Christmas Shop we openedback in 2004.”
A contingent from CornellCooperative Extension was on handfor the two-day event, hosting aseminar on integrated pear man-agement.
According to third generationgrower John Rapp, the event wasquite the undertaking, taking abouttwo years to put together. It wascatered by none other than BillSipos and his Mr. Willy’s eatery andfeatured various area vendors sell-ing tools, signs and farming equip-ment.
“It was a very long weekend,”offered Karen, who added, “It wasour very first time hosting this eventand though it was tough, it was alsovery gratifying.”
The event was simultaneouslyhosted by Bell’s Christmas TreeFarm in Accord.
“We split hosting the event withthem [Bell’s] because that way wecould hold a lot more seminars,”explained John. “We went downthere [Accord] Thursday for a meetand greet type event . . . we wereable to get a lot more done by co-hosting with them.”
Running from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., theevent also featured several industryrelated seminars that countedtoward “pesticide credits” forlicensed applicators. Pesticidelicensing became a New York Staterequirement back in 1977. Licensedapplicators and farmers arerequired to renew their certifica-tions every three years. The semi-nars that count toward the valuablepesticide credits are closely scruti-nized by the New York StateDepartment of EnvironmentalConservation (DEC) and must pastDEC muster – as must the instruc-tors – before being officially accred-ited.
“This was a pretty massive under-taking for us,” said John. “We don’tknow if we’ll do it again, but as far asI’m concerned it was well worth theeffort.”
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