Some farms are businesses. Some are legacies. The Parker Family Maple Farm in West Chazy, New York, is both — and it has been since 1889. Today it stands as the largest maple operation in New York State, producing more than 50,000 gallons of pure organic maple syrup each year. But the story starts much earlier, and much smaller, with a couple and 61 acres on the edge of the Adirondacks.

This is the farm behind every bottle of maple syrup you'll find at The Maple Shop.

A Family Arrives from Canada

In 1884, Adolphus and Amelia Parker left their home just across the border in Canada and settled in West Chazy, a small town in Clinton County on the northern fringe of the Adirondack Mountains. They purchased 61 acres — one for their home, and sixty for a dairy farm and a sugaring operation.

It was a modest start. But the land was right, the trees were right, and the Parkers were the kind of people who understood both. By 1889, their maple operation was formally established, and the Parker name had taken root in the North Country in more ways than one.

What Adolphus and Amelia built over a century ago is now in its fifth generation of family stewardship — more than 100,000 taps and a reputation that stretches well beyond the Adirondacks.

Five Generations, One Farm

There's something extraordinary about a family enterprise that outlasts a century and still carries the same name, the same values, and the same commitment to the land it was built on. The Parkers have never sold. Never consolidated into a faceless operation. Never cut corners to chase volume.

Each generation has taken on the responsibility of the one before it — expanding carefully, improving the operation, and maintaining the kind of hands-on care that a large maple farm requires. The farm grew from Adolphus and Amelia's original 61 acres over decades of patient investment. The taps went from a few hundred to tens of thousands. The sugarhouse grew. The product line expanded. But the family ownership never changed.

Certified Organic. Certified Kosher. Uncompromising.

Parker Family Maple Farm holds two certifications that reflect a deep commitment to quality: USDA Certified Organic and Kosher Certified. Their maple syrup is single-source — meaning every drop comes from their own trees on their own land, not blended from outside suppliers. What you taste in the bottle is exactly what the trees gave them.

Organic certification on a maple farm means the entire sugar bush is managed without synthetic pesticides, herbicides, or fertilizers, and that every part of the processing chain meets strict standards. For a farm of Parker's scale, maintaining that certification is no small feat — it requires discipline and investment across the whole operation, season after season.

A Season Like No Other

Maple sugaring is one of the most demanding and rewarding windows in farming — typically just six weeks between late February and early April when the temperatures swing from freezing nights to warming days, coaxing sap up through the trees. On a 100,000-tap operation like Parker's, that window means around-the-clock work: collecting sap, running the evaporators, boiling it down, and bottling it before the season closes.

It takes roughly 40 gallons of sap to produce a single gallon of pure maple syrup, which means the Parkers are processing enormous volumes of sap during those six weeks to reach their 50,000+ gallon annual output. The scale is extraordinary — but the quality is treated with the same care you'd expect from a family farm on its first batch.

Our Partnership

When The Maple Shop set out to source pure organic maple syrup, the Parker family wasn't hard to find — in the maple world, they're something of a legend. What drew us to them was the combination of extraordinary scale and unwavering standards: the fact that a farm producing 50,000 gallons a year has never let go of its organic certification, its family ownership, or its commitment to single-source quality.

The pure organic Adirondack maple syrup you'll find on our shelves comes entirely from the Parker family's own trees — single-source, certified organic, and five generations in the making.