The Golden Retriever Eclipse Experience
April 8th, 2024 (1- 5pm)
Golden Dog Farm sits right in the heart of the path of totality for the April 8th Solar Eclipse. For three minutes plus, we’ll be in complete darkness with beautiful sight lines to the eclipse (assuming the weather cooperates). And for the other three hours and 57 minutes, we will fill your heart (and stomach) to totality at this once-in-a-lifetime experience.
Our headline is filled with hyperbole, and our maple syrup is filled with organic goodness.
It's single-sourced from the sugar woods of Golden Dog Farm, just down the road from Smugglers' Notch in Vermont.
It's wood-fired in small batches, and is never blended or infused. The trees are the artisans here, and we don't do anything to change what the trees and this terroir provide. And it is now available in a holiday gift pack of all three flavors!
Is it really the best maple syrup on earth? We think so. And Dewey describes it as being like a belly rub from the inside.
Okay, okay, we probably overdid it here.
But we both worked in marketing and are hard-wired to put the Golden Dog Farm brand on everything. Including some of the most comfortable clothes we could find.
Doug recommends getting whatever you get in purple, it's his favorite color.
Dewey recommends you leave it on the floor, so that he and other like-minded Goldens can play keep away with the swag.
Welcome to the Worple family farm in the Green Mountains of Vermont. Producing organic maple syrup, honey, fruit, berries and nuts. Maple Syrup was the first product we produced on the farm (Spring 2021). Honey followed that summer. And I can say without hyperbole, we've never tasted anything better.
On the other hand, tasting notes for the crafting of the early vintages of white, rosé and red wines would read something like - a hint of exuberance is detected but it is overwhelmed with a nose filled with naïveté. While those vintages will not be making a commercial appearance, we're counting on a bit more experience, a lot of luck and a helping hand from the gods of fermentation so that we can share future vintages with you.
A “happy” of Golden Retrievers in the family inspired the Golden Dog Farm name - currently home to Dewey, Uncle Lenny, Mar and counting. We're sad to share that Boo followed Addy, Buddy and Kate in crossing the rainbow bridge (May of 2022).
What is a "happy?" It's the term we've coined as the collective noun for a group of Goldens - like a "rhumba" of rattlesnakes, a "murder" of crows, or a "gaggle" of geese.
So give our incomparable maple syrup and honey a try, and then come join us for a tour of the farm or for a Golden Retriever Happy Hour and experience our guiding philosophy in person. Happiness is Golden.™
$249.00
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Total Eclipse. Total Happy-ness. The Golden Retriever Eclipse Experience. Golden Dog Farm sits right in the heart of the path of totality for the April...
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April 8 the Solar Eclipse is passing over the US (and Jeffersonville, VT)! Get your Golden Dog Farm Solar Eclipse glasses AND toast Farmer Doug...
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Maple Syrup was a treat enjoyed by the continent's indigenous people long before the European settlers arrived and it has a prominent place in their lore. Our family has a...
View full product detailsAt the end of this maple syrup "provenance-focused positioning exercise," I wondered if we could get even more granular? Could we make and market a maple syrup from a single tree?
In terms of places to stay, we work with Spruce Peak Lodge and Talta Lodge on the Stowe side of the Mountain.
https://www.sprucepeak.com
https://www.bluebirdhotels.com/hotels/talta-lodge
On the Smuggler's Notch side of the mountain, we recommend the following options.
https://www.smuggs.com - a resort that is less than 10 minutes away.
https://www.sterlingridgeresort.com
- Cabins that are also close.
https://notchlodges.com
5 different (mostly chalet type) lodges for rental located between here and Smugger’s Notch.
While we would love to include everyone’s dogs, we aren’t able to accommodate dogs at the Golden Retriever Experience other than the Butternut Goldens or Golden Dog Farm pups.
Goldens (and other dogs) are welcome to join us for the Golden Dog Farm General Tour (Bees and Maple Trees). They’ll also be joining one or both of the resident Goldens here who accompany the tours.
The Golden Retriever Experience is basically an hour long play date with a dozen or so adult Golden Retrievers in a magnificent setting.
The majority of the Goldens arrive from Butternut Goldens. Everyone has a chance to meet and hang out with the dogs before they are let out of the truck. And then they run and want to play ball. After the dogs burn off some energy, we head into the barn and surround ourselves with the happy of goldens. If the weather dictates, we will move the experience fully inside to one of our barns with a woodburning stove.
In terms of giving it as a gift, we have an option for that. The gift certificate package which is $99 includes a stuffed golden retriever wearing a Golden Dog Farm bandana to give you something tangible to gift with the certificate (you can add additional gift certificates for other attendees for $75). In addition, Gift certificate holders will have priority spots set aside until two weeks before each event to ensure that there will be availability for them to redeem for future dates.
https://goldendogfarm.com/collections/experiences/products/golden-retriever-experience-gift-package (https://goldendogfarm.com/collections/experiences/products/golden-retriever-experience-gift-package)
All tours or experiences are booked through our website.
There is an Experiences Button on the Menu Bar - if you hover over it, a drop down menu will show you the General Farm Tour, Bee Experience and Golden Retriever Experience beneath it.
The booking details are at the bottom of the page below the reviews. You first have to click on select a time, then you can check on available dates and complete your booking. If when you select a time, it says "No Time Slots Available" that means we are sold out.
We are not breeders but our partners in the Golden Retriever Experience are. They are Butternut Goldens.
butternutgoldens.com
We are located in Jeffersonville, VT just over "The Notch" from Stowe and 7 minutes away from Smugglers' Notch Ski Resort.
Burlington and Burlington Airport (the nearest airport to us) is 45 minutes away.
Some people choose to fly into Boston, rent a car and drive here. (Boston is 3.5 hours away.) Or they fly to Montreal, rent a car and drive here (Montreal is 2 hours away).
The farm is a working farm, so we don't have regular business hours - and there is not an option for walk-ins or drop-in visits.
There are basically two ways to visit the farm - reserve and attend one of our tours/experiences (dates available are on the booking calendars associated with each event on the website), or to make an appointment to visit the farm store if we can find a mutually convenient time.
https://goldendogfarm.com/collections/experiences
We realize that this doesn't make it particularly easy to visit the farm, and we apologize, but we are busy running the farm most of the time and we've found this is the only way we can manage everything.
Hope we see you at one of our tours or experiences soon.
If you do want to make an appointment to visit the farm store, you should be aware that the large group of Butternut Goldens in the Golden Retriever Experience do not live here on Golden Dog Farm. They are only here for the experience.