Early in February with scant snow to hinder them, Tom, Seth, and Jon designed, expanded by 400 taps, and strung all new pipelines in the sugarbush. On February 27, they set in the pipeline in 30" of fresh snow, the only significant snow of the winter.  In the photos below, our grandson curiously watched his father, Jon, and his Uncle Seth set buckets.  The season was off to a roaring start as sap gushed from the trees into holding tanks and buckets.

As Jon and Seth gathered the sap from the holding tanks and buckets, Tom boiled it down in a wood-fired evaporator situated in the quaint and rustic sugarhouse Tom built when he was 15.

The wood used to boil the sap to the consistency of maple syrup is harvested from the farm. The fragrant aromas of the burning wood, combined with the maple smell and the clouds of bellowing steam, enables one to experience the heart and soul of maple sugaring.

When the boiling sap has reached syrup stage, it is filtered, tested with a hydrometer, and packaged for the consumer to purchase. By gathering the sap immediately after a run and boiling it down at its optimum, our syrup has a delicate, smooth, and tantalizing taste. Try some!

Prices:
1 gallon $48
½ gallon $28
1 quart   $17
Shipping:
USPS flat rate - 2 ½ gallons or 2 quarts = $10.70