Maple Syrup

Tapping maple trees each spring seems to be a natural fit for a small mixed farm, but up until recently we always purchased our syrup from another local farm. Then in 2021, up sprung a young entrepreneur in our family who put in around 50 taps in our woodlot and boiled the fresh sap down into delicious maple syrup in his own homemade evaporator. Such a treat! The syrup flew off our shelves, and we were sold out almost as soon as the sap stopped flowing that year. By 2022 he was up over 150 taps, purchased a bigger more elaborate evaporator to replace the homemade one, and added a reverse osmosis filtering system. Now we have just about the right amount to stock our shelves with our own delicious maple syrup all year!