About 12 years ago, we began making maple syrup together. As kids, both of us had made syrup with our families over an open fire in our backyards, and we wanted to share that same experience with our son, Cody.

That first year, we started with about 100 buckets on our own property. We built a small sap house and purchased a 20” x 60” evaporator. The following year, we increased to around 250 buckets. As Rusty would say, weekends were great because all the kids would come help collect sap—but during the week, he was often out there alone with a headlamp on, gathering buckets in the dark.

After that, we transitioned to sap lines, increasing the number of taps each year. We’ve upgraded our evaporator twice since that first season and built a new, much larger sap house. Today, we have approximately 6,000 taps—some pumped directly into the sap house and others that we still collect manually.

Along the way, we decided selling eggs might be a fun project for Cody. We purchased 100 baby chicks, built a chicken coop, and began collecting eggs—something we continue to do today. A few years later, we built a barn and purchased four cows. Our herd has since grown, both through new calves and additional purchases.

Not long after, we took over a friend’s pig business. Around that time, we changed our name from Cody’s Sugar Shack to Cody’s Sugar Shack and Farming to better reflect everything we had become.

Today, we offer not only maple syrup and maple products, but also fresh eggs and USDA-certified beef, pork, and chicken, all available in our sap house Market. We also raise turkeys for Thanksgiving and make them available for the holiday season. In addition to our own products, we proudly carry a variety of goods from other local farmers and makers, supporting our community and offering our customers even more locally sourced options.

In the summer, we put up hay, and in the winter, we host wreath-making parties. Over the years, the Christmas season has also become a special part of what we do. We now sell Christmas trees and have opened a Christmas store filled with seasonal décor, gifts, and holiday favorites, making the farm a festive destination for families during the holidays.

All of this keeps us busy, but we wouldn’t change a thing. We love what we do, we’re proud of what we’ve built, and we look forward to what the future holds for our family and our farm.

We hope you enjoy our products as much as we enjoy producing them.