For over 30 years Cody Koch has been making maple syrup in the heart of New York’s Finger Lakes region.
OUR STORY
Starting when he was a child tapping trees in his front yard and making syrup on the kitchen stove with his dad, Cody now makes maple syrup with his wife Elizabeth on their 250-acre, state-of-the-art maple farm in South Bristol, New York.
OUR FARM
For the past 12 years, we have been shaping our valley sugarbush into a manageable syrup producing forest. Using sustainable, environmentally responsible practices we have trimmed acres of dense maple forest while protecting the forest habitat and increasing the sugarbush’s production and health.
MAPLE LODGE–OPENING 2023
We can’t wait for you to come and enjoy our new timber-framed, eco-friendly, 4,000 square feet, Maple Lodge at Timber Trails Forest Farm–opening in the fall of 2023!
Built with timber harvested and milled on the farm, our barn will include space for eco-maple production, a commercial kitchen, bottling facility, and a large timber frame great room for guests to enjoy all the flavors of maple season.
WATCH THE BUILDING OF OUR TIMBER FRAME MAPLE BARN
MISSION
Sustainably educate, inspire, and nourish our community
WHAT WE STAND FOR
OUR TEAM
Cody Koch
FOUNDER & FOREST FARMER
cody@timbertrailsforestfarm.com
Nicknamed “Mountain Man” as a child, Cody has always been drawn to working outside in the Bristol Hillside where he grew up. His passion for building and creating led him to study architecture and engineering in college.
From building miles of stone trails, adding hundreds of feet of culvert pipe, digging a quarter-acre pond, to moving thousands of truck loads of dirt and stone, and trimming acres of dense maple forest, Cody is industrious by nature. Over the last ten years he has cultivated the forest into a maple syrup producing sugarbrush, shaped the Maple Lodge site from a swamp, and built a 25 ft by 25 ft, timber-framed, traditional wood-fired, sugar house.
Elizabeth Koch
CO-OWNER & MARKETING DIRECTOR
elizabeth@timbertrailsforestfarm.com
Elizabeth was born at the Rochester Folk Art Guild, an organic farm and intentional living community. She graduated from Bennington College in 2010 with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Visual Arts. She and Cody met at a music festival in 2013. Five years later, on August 18, 2018 they married on their farm and held their reception on the freshly poured concrete slab where their 4,000 sf timber-frame Maple Lodge now stands.
Elizabeth is a multidisciplinary designer, illustrator, and art director. In addition to helping in the sugarbush and sugarhouse every season, Elizabeth designs all of Timber Trails’ artwork, packaging, and marketing materials.
Photo: Delaine Dacko
Jayden Joseph
MARKET & FARM HAND
Jayden, Cody and Elizabeth’s nephew, is a huge help around the farm. He learned how to operate our wood-fired evaporator during the 2022 maple season and plans to run it himself next year. He leads our farm tours during Maple Weekend and currently you can find him every Sunday at the Brighton Farmer’s market assisting customers and running our POS system.
Jayden is a high school student and is on the Downhill Race Ski Team and Lacrosse Team.
Arvo & Mozzie
FARM DOGS
Both Australian Cattle dogs, Arvo (Aussie slang for afternoon) and Mozzie (Aussie slang for mosquito) keep things moving on the farm. Always bursting with energy, they are eager to help herd anything that moves. You can often find them running around our ponds trying to catch frogs.