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Our Indigenous Peoples First Cultivated More than Just Maple
Sugar country, under snow, getting ready to give thanks for the abundance of food first developed in the Americas. Our...
Maple: America’s Indigenous Sweet
First developed by the native peoples of North America, maple has always been an important food source in this...
Handmade in Vermont – Sourced in Sugar Country
The Sapling is handmade in Vermont from things sourced in maple-producing states! Fall isn’t just the season...
Cooking Without Thinking: The Maple Edition
Lunching with perfection here on cobb salad with maple mustard vinaigrette. To emulate, add to your favorite hearty...
Maple School: The Math of Tapping a Maple Tree
Welcome to Maple School, our series on things you can learn through maple syrup. Today: The Math of Tapping a Maple...
Maple in Harvest Food
Maple Sweetened Apple Butter: Cut 20 apples into eighths and place in stock pot with 1 C apple cider; cook down until...
Maple School: Why Does Sap Run? Science!
Maple sap runs in the late winter or early spring time, when the nights are freezing and the days are warm. But what...
Baking With Maple Syrup
All of a sudden it’s baking season. We’re baking with maple syrup! You? Here’s how to substitute maple syrup for other...
Preserving with Maple
If your garden is anything like ours, you are currently experiencing an overabundance of (a) cucumbers, (b) tomatoes,...
Apple Cider Syrup: The Other American Syrup
Here at the Vermont Evaporator Company, we're a bit obsessed with all things syrup. We're focused most of the year on...
Time to Identify Your Maple Trees!
Fall is just about here again. Time to escape into the woods. The leaves have started to turn, the air is crisp, and...
DIY Maple Syrup: All About Sugar Wood
It's a perfect fall day in New England. Time for us to put in fuel for next spring's DIY maple syrup making...
Maple Sugarin’ in Vermont: A Good Read for the Maple History Buff
Maple Sugarin’ In Vermont: A Sweet History by Betty Ann Lockhart is a perfect fair-weather read for the Vermont...
Homemade Maple Syrup Peaches
Peaches canned in homemade maple syrup: a north-south, east-west delicacy. Our peach tree nearly toppled over with the...
Maple on the Hiking Trail
We went hiking this summer on the Appalachian Trail, and we brought our homemade maple syrup with us! Both maple syrup...
Learning with Maple
Making maple syrup together is a great way to engage kids---both big and little---with art, science, history, and...
Isn’t all Maple Syrup Organic?
Pesticides and herbicides are not commonly used in maple syrup production. Does that mean that all maple syrup is...
Back to School: A Review of Children’s Literature on Maple
From picture books about sugaring in the olden days to modern how-to manuals for kids, children’s literature on maple...
True Crimes of Maple
Inside the sweet world of syrup, a picture of crime emerges . . . Burglary, vandalism and heists, oh my! The hidden...
Six Notorious Pests of Maple
What could be a better warm-weather, maple-related blogpost than the bug-villains of the sugarbush? We’re talking...