OUR STORY

Hi, we are Rusty, Meg and Cody from Cody’s Sugar Shack and Farming located in the heart of the Catskills in Fleischmanns, New York. We are a family owned and run business that we began about 12 years ago. As kids, Rusty and I both had made maple syrup with our families over an open fire in our backyards. We thought that this would be something that we could share with our son, Cody. That first year we started with about 100 buckets on our own property and boiled the sap on a 20” x 60” evaporator in a small sap house that we had built. The next year we increased the buckets to about 250. As Rusty would say, weekends were great, because all the kids would come to collect, but during the week he would be the only one out there with a headlamp on collecting. From that point on, we changed to sap lines and each year we have increased the amount of taps we have out. We have also upgraded the evaporator three times since that first year, and have built a new, much larger sap house, which we have already added on to. We now have approximately 6000 taps, some that are pumped directly into the sap house and some that we have to go and collect from.

Along the way, we decided that selling eggs might also be a fun project for Cody, so we purchased 100 baby chicks, built a chicken coop and started collecting and selling eggs.  A few years later we built a barn and purchased four cows. The four cows have since multiplied, we purchased a pig business and started raising meat chickens as well.

We now not only offer maple syrup and maple syrup products, we also have eggs and USDA certified beef, pork and chicken which you can find in our sap house Market.   

We do hay in the summer and have Wreath Making parties in the Winter.

New for 2024 we will now have Christmas Trees and Christmas decorations and gifts.

We all have our regular full-time jobs, along with running the farm, which has kept us busy, however, we would not change it for anything, as we love what we are doing and what we have accomplished so far and look forward to what the future holds for our family and our farming operation.

We hope that you enjoy our products as much as we do and we hope to see you soon!!