What they sell
- Pure maple syrup
- Maple cream
- Maple sugar
- Maple candy
- Infused maple syrup
- Bourbon barrel maple syrup
Visit
Opening times
Pickup fridge by the sugarshack open any time
tours by appointment
458 Franklin School Road, Fort Kent, ME 04743
Emailinfo@northernreachmaple.com
You can visit in personDelivers locally
What people say
5.0
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About the farm
Northern Reach Maple is a family run sugarbush and sugarhouse in Fort Kent, Maine, making pure Maine maple syrup, maple cream, maple sugar and candy.
Northern Reach Maple is a family run maple syrup operation in Fort Kent, in the St. John Valley at the top of Maine. Christian Thorsnes bought the land in 2017, after a military career and years with the Department of Defense, and began making syrup as a small hobby in the spring of 2018. By 2024 the sugarbush had grown to around 400 to 500 taps, and that year the family ran food grade tubing through the woods and refitted the sugarhouse for a first commercial season in 2025.
The woodlot is managed all year, thinned so the sugar and red maples grow healthier, with standing dead trees left for nesting birds, and tapped conservatively by trunk size. Sap runs by tubing to the sugarhouse, where it is boiled, filtered, graded and bottled. Alongside pure Maine maple syrup they make maple cream, maple sugar, maple candy and infused and bourbon barrel aged syrups. The fridge in front of the sugarshack is always open for pickups, paid by cash or check, and tours can be booked.
Christian Thorsnes
Owner
A Maine native and veteran who started the sugarbush in 2018 and runs it as its only full time worker, helped by family.
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