KEESEVILLE — Bike the Barns, a half-day bicycle tour centered around farms and the region’s local food movement, is set for Saturday, Sept. 21.

The tour, co-hosted by the Adirondack North Country Association and Bike Adirondacks, features a 22-mile road cycling route that will take riders to farms and other agricultural points of interest in the AuSable and Champlain valleys. The event is currently full at 200 riders, but community members are still invited to register to be added to the waitlist.

The seventh Bike the Barns ride will begin at Ausable Brewing Company in Keeseville, continue to the Babbie Rural Farm and Learning Museum and Northern Orchard in Peru and cross over the scenic Ausable Chasm to stops at Mace Chasm Farm and North Country Creamery in Keeseville. Riders will end back at the brewery for a celebration of live music and local food and drink.

said ANCA Executive Director Elizabeth Cooper.

ANCA established Bike the Barns in 2016 to increase awareness about local food issues and engagement with the small farms and businesses that are instrumental to the health and vitality of local economies, farmlands and communities. Now in its seventh year, the 2024 ride will follow the same route as last year’s tour.

Doug Haney, owner of Bike Adirondacks, a Saranac Lake-based company that specializes in regional bicycle events, noted that inclement weather affected the overall experience last year.

he said.

The event will be based at Ausable Brewing Company, a nanobrewery owned and operated by brothers Dan and Dylan Badger. Babbie Rural Farm and Learning Museum is a non-profit educational institution dedicated to preserving the region’s historical and agricultural way of life. Established in 1903 and operated by second- and third-generation growers, Northern Orchard Co. is a grower, packer, and wholesale shipper of apples. Owned and operated by first-generation farmers Ashlee Kleinhammer and Steven Googin, North Country Creamery is a 115-acre dairy farm and home of a herd of grass-fed Shorthorn and Jersey milking cows. Mace Chasm Farm grazes cattle, poultry and pigs and produces grafted tree nursery stock on about 120 acres of land.

Proceeds from Bike the Barns support ANCA’s Local Food System Program, which aims to strengthen North Country farms and food businesses while increasing access to local food.

The $99 registration fee for Bike the Barns includes a clearly marked route, mechanical support, farm stops, additional points of interest and a finish line celebration with local food, beverages and live music.

Members of the public are invited to register to be added to the waitlist for the sold out event. Learn more at www.adirondack.org/btb.