From Our Blog
Cleaning and Storing DIY Maple Syrup Equipment
The season is over, and it’s time to pull your taps, and clean and store your DIY maple syrup equipment. Here are some...
DIY Maple Syrup: A Sugar Maker’s Glossary
You’ve started making your own maple syrup, but are still a bit stymied by some of the maple lingo out there. We offer...
How To Make Maple Candy
Making maple syrup was the hard part. Here’s how to turn your homemade maple syrup into maple candy! Search...
Anyone Can Make Sugar On Snow
You don't have to be a professional maple syrup maker to enjoy sugar on snow. You don't even have to be an amateur!...
Filtering Homemade Maple Syrup
You've decided to make your own maple syrup this year. You're either researching if you should filter your final...
How To Finish and Store Homemade Maple Syrup
You've tapped your trees, collected your sap, boiled it off, and now it's time to finish your homemade maple syrup....
Building a Cinder Block Firebox for the Sapling Evaporator Pan
This post was written by Lori, a customer of ours from Missouri. In this post, Lori describes how she built a cinder...
Troubleshooting Your Sugar Cube RO: Conquering the Dreaded Air Leak
Troubleshooting Your Vermont Evaporator Sugar Cube RO System: Conquering the Dreaded Air Leak So, you've got a Vermont...
Why the Sapling Beats Homemade Barrel Evaporators
The Sapling Evaporator is engineered for maximum DIY maple-syrup efficiency! A while back, a prospective customer...
DIY Maple Syrup: Making Maple on the Sapling
Making maple syrup on the Sapling Evaporator is easy! Here’s how. Technical posts, technical posts, and more technical...
What is Reverse Osmosis and Should I use It?
Reverse osmosis is something that has become ubiquitous in the maple syrup industry. But what is reverse osmosis (or...
How Does Reverse Osmosis Work, Anyway?
Reverse osmosis has become ubiquitous in the maple syrup industry. But how does reverse osmosis work? What is Reverse...
How to Store Maple Sap
The sap is running and your buckets are filling up! You've collected your sap and are ready to store your sap in...
DIY Maple Syrup: Why a Continuous-Flow Pan is Better Than a Flat Pan
At Vermont Evaporator Company, all our DIY maple syrup equipment features “baffled” or “continuous flow” pans because...
How to Collect Maple Sap
You've decided to make maple syrup this season. You've tapped your trees, and the sap is running, and your buckets are...
Ten Reasons to Make Your Own Maple Syrup
Here are ten reasons why sugaring is one of our favorite hobbies! 1. Making maple syrup really makes our March....
The Health Benefits of Being in the Woods
Why we hobby maple syrup makers are so happy and fit! Ok, that may be overstating it a bit. Hobby maple syrup makers,...
How To Tap A Maple Tree
You’ve decided to make maple syrup this year and you’ve determined that it’s time to tap your trees. Great! Here’s...
How to Run Lines for Maple Syrup
At the Vermont Evaporator Company, we aim to bring the tech of big maple to the maple hobbyist! We've designed an...
Will Tap Holes Close Up if You Tap Maples Too Early?
Knowing when to tap is one of the biggest challenges for a maple syrup producer. There is no clear answer to the...