Our Story

2015

Justin McCabe invents the Sapling Evaporator and the Vermont Evaporator Company is born! The first dozen Sapling Evaporators are made and sold.

2016

Kate Whelley McCabe comes on as CEO and the company moves from the family garage to a facility at 157 Pioneer Center in Montpelier.

2017

Vermont Evaporator Company expands its footprint in Pioneer Center and celebrates with a Grand Reopening featuring Senator Patrick Leahy.

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2019

The Vermont Evaporator Company family grows! Kate’s Sister-in-Law Nikki Whelley, pictured here on the far left, comes on as Marketing and Communications Director.

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2020

The pandemic hits, and Vermont Evaporator Company pivots from a hybrid model to a one-stop-shop, online business, adding buckets, spiles, and other supplies to the line of evaporators and accessories. The Sapling Everything Grill is added to the product line.

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2021

Vermont Evaporator Company expands into the old Northeast Granite Company building at 2 Granite Street in Montpelier. We couldn’t have done it without Plant Manager Paul Eley!

2023 & 2024

The Company averts disaster three times when two “hundred-year” floods occur in two consecutive summers, and a building fire rages next door in the fall.

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2025

It’s time to expand again! Vermont Evaporator Company moves to a new facility in Bristol, Vermont at about the same time that the 800th Sapling Evaporator is sold.

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