by katemccabe | Mar 10, 2026 | Our Company, Products and Customers
This post was written by Lori, a customer of ours from Missouri. In this post, Lori describes how she built a cinder block firebox for her Sapling Evaporator Pan. May it inspire you to DIY! Thanks Lori! Falling in Love with Maple On our honeymoon in January at the...
by katemccabe | Mar 9, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Troubleshooting Your Vermont Evaporator Sugar Cube RO System: Conquering the Dreaded Air Leak So, you’ve got a Vermont Evaporator Sugar Cube Reverse Osmosis System, and you are ready to make some delicious maple syrup. But something’s not quite right....
by katemccabe | Mar 8, 2026 | Our Company, Products and Customers
The Sapling Evaporator is engineered for maximum DIY maple-syrup efficiency! A while back, a prospective customer named Tom emailed me with the following question: “I love your maple syrup evaporators. But, without being a jerk, why should I spend that much on a...
by katemccabe | Mar 3, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Making maple syrup on the Sapling Evaporator is easy! Here’s how. Technical posts, technical posts, and more technical posts. ‘Tis the season, maple people! Today: the basics of making maple syrup on the Sapling Evaporator. (As an aside, because the Sapling comes...
by katemccabe | Mar 1, 2026 | About Maple Syrup, DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Reverse osmosis is something that has become ubiquitous in the maple syrup industry. But what is reverse osmosis (or “RO” for short) and should you use one in your hobby maple syrup operation? Read on to find out! What is Reverse Osmosis? Simply stated,...
by katemccabe | Feb 24, 2026 | About Maple Syrup, DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Reverse osmosis has become ubiquitous in the maple syrup industry. But how does reverse osmosis work? What is Reverse Osmosis? Reverse osmosis is a system that separates water molecules from other substances found in liquids. Reverse osmosis systems can be found in...
by katemccabe | Feb 22, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup
The sap is running and your buckets are filling up! You’ve collected your sap and are ready to store your sap in preparation for your first boil. Read below for some tips and tricks on storing your maple sap for the DIY maple syrup maker! The weather is just...
by katemccabe | Feb 17, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
At Vermont Evaporator Company, all our DIY maple syrup equipment features “baffled” or “continuous flow” pans because it makes sugaring more efficient, even in the backyard. But why? You know what a continuous-boil (or continuous-flow) pan is, but do you know why it’s...
by katemccabe | Feb 15, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup
You’ve decided to make maple syrup this season. You’ve tapped your trees, and the sap is running, and your buckets are filling up! Time for maple sap collection and storing your sap in preparation for your first boil. Tips and tricks on collecting and...
by katemccabe | Feb 10, 2026 | Our Company, Products and Customers
Here are ten reasons why sugaring is one of our favorite hobbies! 1. Making maple syrup really makes our March. 2&3. Maple is good for your health! 4. Maple syrup connects us to our past and future. 5. Kids really love making maple syrup! 6. There is so much to...
by katemccabe | Feb 8, 2026 | Beyond Maple
Why we hobby maple syrup makers are so happy and fit! Ok, that may be overstating it a bit. Hobby maple syrup makers, like regular people everywhere, come in all fitness levels. But we are willing to wager that, as folks go, we’re still a healthier-and...
by katemccabe | Feb 1, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup
At the Vermont Evaporator Company, we aim to bring the tech of big maple to the maple hobbyist! We’ve designed an open-air evaporator that gives you efficiency with a baffled pan (The Sapling). We invented the world’s smallest RO system for maple syrup...
by katemccabe | Jan 10, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup
Knowing when to tap is one of the biggest challenges for a maple syrup producer. There is no clear answer to the question of when to tap. The right time to tap depends on “a combination of inexact science, the vagaries of weather, microclimate, intuition, and luck.”...
by katemccabe | Jan 7, 2026 | DIY Maple Syrup
You’re ready to make maple syrup! You’ve tapped your maple trees, collected and stored maple sap. The weekend approaches. It’s time to boil some maple syrup! Here’s how! Making Maple Syrup is Simple Making maple syrup is a simple process that involves...
by katemccabe | Dec 29, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup
It’s almost 2026 and you’re looking for a healthy, natural, outdoor hobby to get you through to spring. Aren’t we all!? You’ve decided to try your hand at making your own maple syrup this year. Resolution maple! Excellent choice. Here’s...
by katemccabe | Dec 11, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup
Thinking of making your own maple syrup this season? Overwhelmed with decisions about what to buy, and how much everything costs? Below, we go over how to make maple syrup on a budget. What you need, how you can get started affordably, and where spending a bit more...
by katemccabe | Dec 8, 2025 | Beyond Maple, Cooking with Maple
Last-Minute Finds that Pair Well with a Bottle of the Good Stuff We can’t tell you how many DIY maple syrup makers we talk to you in a year. It’s probably thousands! We can tell you, however, that in the average five minute conversation, most of these backyard sugar...
by katemccabe | Dec 3, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup
Repackaging your homemade maple for gifts is an easy process. You can repackage your maple syrup in smaller bottles or gift bottles. Or you can transform your maple syrup into maple cream, candy, or sugar for a unique homemade gift! We’ll talk you through the...
by katemccabe | Dec 1, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
The hubbub of Thanksgiving has passed and you are looking forward to the gift-giving part of the holiday season! (Or, maybe not, but you’re still participating in it. It happens!) You have an actual or aspiring backyard sugar maker in the family, and you would like...
by katemccabe | Nov 25, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Join us in observing Native American Heritage Month this year by giving thanks for maple! November is National Native American Heritage Month We didn’t realize until we had been running this company for a few years that November was National Native American Heritage...
by katemccabe | Nov 19, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
Lunching with perfection here on cobb salad with maple mustard vinaigrette. To emulate, add to your favorite hearty fall salad: one parts each of maple syrup, Dijon mustard, and red wine vinegar to three parts olive oil. Seriously easy. Totally yummy. If I ever write...
by katemccabe | Nov 17, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Maple and Backyard News
Greetings fellow maple lovers! We’ve been eager to create a blog post listing maple events for a while now. With the start of the holiday season, we thought this would be the perfect time to share a list of maple events happening over the coming year, starting...
by katemccabe | Nov 17, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup
Thinking of making your own maple syrup this season? Trying to figure out what maple syrup sugaring supplies you need to get started? You’ve come to the right place! Here we go over what you need, what’s nice to have, and how it all works. Maple Syrup...
by katemccabe | Nov 14, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
Maple Sweetened Apple Butter: Cut 20 apples into eighths and place in stock pot with 1 C apple cider; cook down until mushy. Put though seive or food mill to remove seeds, stems and skin. Put in slow cooker and mix in 1 C maple syrup, juice of 1 lemon, 2 tsp each...
by katemccabe | Nov 12, 2025 | Our Company, Products and Customers
Here at Vermont Evaporator Company, we pride ourselves on selling pans that are made to last, are good quality, and are reasonably priced for the backyard sugarmaker. Buying evaporator pans from Amazon might seem like a cheaper and/or easier option. However, of you...
by katemccabe | Nov 7, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Beyond Maple
Sugar country, under snow, getting ready to give thanks for the abundance of food first developed in the Americas. Our indigenous peoples first cultivated more than just maple! We didn’t realize until a few years ago that November was National Native American...
by katemccabe | Nov 5, 2025 | About Maple Syrup
First developed by the native peoples of North America, maple has always been an important food source in this country. It has also been a symbol of, and vehicle for, independence and political action. British colonists protested the Sugar Act of 1764 by exclusive use...
by katemccabe | Oct 14, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
All of a sudden it’s baking season. We’re baking with maple syrup! You? Here’s how to substitute maple syrup for other sweeteners. Plus, some of our favorite recipes. Bake away! Substituting With Maple It’s fall. Time to bake! We’ve even been baking using the cooking...
by katemccabe | Oct 6, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
If your garden is anything like ours, you are currently experiencing an overabundance of (a) cucumbers, (b) tomatoes, (c) hot peppers, (d) green beans, or (e) two or more of the above. (The plethora of zucchini goes without saying; shred them, freeze them, and stay...
by katemccabe | Sep 29, 2025 | Beyond Maple
by katemccabe | Sep 29, 2025 | About Maple Syrup
The early history of maple syrup unfolded right here in North America! Among other crops, Native North Americans first developed corn, beans, cotton, tobacco and maple. Unlike with the first four products, a handful of prominent European immigrants purported to take...
by katemccabe | Sep 25, 2025 | Beyond Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
Here at the Vermont Evaporator Company, we’re a bit obsessed with all things syrup. We’re focused most of the year on Maple Syrup, but there are so many types of syrup to be excited about. We’ve written about our experiences making dandelion syrup...
by katemccabe | Sep 24, 2025 | Beyond Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
An Email from Poland Last winter, an email from Poland hit the inbox. Would we please handle the export of a Bucket RO and send along some dropline kits to Łódzki (or Łódź), Poland? The answer we gave was yes! And that’s how we first met Bartosz...
by katemccabe | Sep 22, 2025 | About Maple Syrup
Maple sap runs in the late winter or early spring time, when the nights are freezing and the days are warm. But what exactly causes the sap to run out of the tree and into our buckets? As many sugar makers know, the time for collecting sap from a maple tree is in late...
by katemccabe | Sep 18, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup
It’s a perfect fall day in New England. Time for us to put in fuel for next spring’s DIY maple syrup making operation! If we were good little Vermonters, we would have done this while the snow melted. Clearly, we’re still assimilating. Sugarwood...
by katemccabe | Sep 15, 2025 | About Maple Syrup
Children’s literature on maple syrup making is prolific, varied, and fun. We highly recommend these six titles for a maple syrup story hour for your youngest, sweetest maple lovers. Sugar On Snow Sugar on Snow by Nan Parson Rossiter (copyright 2002) is a wonderful,...
by katemccabe | Sep 11, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Beyond Maple
Here in sugar country, it is not uncommon to find oneself travelling down a country lane in the dappled shadows cast by parallel rows of giant sugar maples. How did that happen? Might it happen again? Sugars with a view: sugar maples planted long ago on Sparrow Farm...
by katemccabe | Sep 8, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, DIY Maple Syrup
Welcome to Maple School, our series on things you can learn through maple syrup. Today: The Math of Tapping a Maple Tree! You can learn many things about math through learning about how to make maple syrupa Among them are the concept of ratios, working with fractions,...
by katemccabe | Sep 4, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, DIY Maple Syrup
Fall is just about here again. Time to escape into the woods. The leaves have started to turn, the air is crisp, and the world is letting out its annual sigh of relief. We can join it, if only for a minute, with a walk among the trees. Time to identify your maple...
by katemccabe | Aug 27, 2025 | Our Company, Products and Customers
A number of years ago, we acquired a very interesting customer: Cooper’s Daughter Spirits, a distillery and cooperage in Claverack, New York. Cooper’s Daughter purchased a Sapling Evaporator and used it for several years to make the black walnut syrup that...
by katemccabe | Aug 22, 2025 | Our Company, Products and Customers
For four years now, Vermont Evaporator Company has been helping teachers and kids make maple syrup at Main Street Middle School (MSMS) in Montpelier, Vermont. We sat down recently with the faculty involved and learned that MSMS was doing much more than just producing...
by katemccabe | Aug 18, 2025 | Beyond Maple, Blog
The Sticky is Loosely Based on the Great Canadian Maple Heist It’s just been hot. Too hot. So, the other day, we took a fan into the basement and put it on full blast while binging “The Sticky,” a comedy-drama series that may be of particular...
by katemccabe | Aug 13, 2025 | About Maple Syrup
Pesticides and herbicides are not commonly used in maple syrup production. Does that mean that all maple syrup is organic? Time is tight. The kids are hollering for pancakes. And you keep forgetting to visit your local sugarhouse. Are you with me? You are at the...
by katemccabe | Aug 12, 2025 | About Maple Syrup
Audubon Vermont, the State of Vermont, and Vermont Maple Sugar Makers have teamed up to make Vermont’s working forests prime songbird habitat, and the efforts are now expanding beyond our state borders! The result: Bird-Friendly Maple! If you pay attention to the news...
by katemccabe | Aug 4, 2025 | About Maple Syrup
Maple history fans! A new book has been published that may interest you: Maple Syrup History: Fun Facts – Production Evolution – Spouts by Maxime Caouette. The book is an English translation of Maxime’s French language book Histoire Acéricole: Anecdotes – Procédés...
by katemccabe | Jul 28, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Beyond Maple
We went hiking this summer on the Appalachian Trail, and we brought our homemade maple syrup with us! Both maple syrup and maple candy made the trip with us to see which fared better on the long journey. We used it both to sweeten our oats in the morning, as a sweet...
by katemccabe | Jul 21, 2025 | Our Company, Products and Customers
The Sapling is handmade in Vermont from things sourced in maple-producing states! Fall isn’t just the season for identifying our sugar maples, jumping in leaf piles and carving pumpkins anymore! Ever since our family started the Vermont Evaporator Company, fall has...
by katemccabe | Jul 14, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
Peaches canned in homemade maple syrup: a north-south, east-west delicacy. Our peach tree nearly toppled over with the weight of its fruit a few years ago. Which was a big surprise, as I recall our disbelief at the point of its purchase that one could even grow...
by katemccabe | Jul 11, 2025 | Our Company, Products and Customers
Wood-fired beer. It’s a thing! And we made a quick and easy Sapling Summer Kolsch to prove it! Sapling Summer Kolsch: a recipe created for Vermont Evaporator by 1st Republic Brewing Company. We’ve done it again. We’ve discovered another perfectly good use for...
by katemccabe | Jul 10, 2025 | Cooking with Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
Cheers! You can do (just about) everything on the Sapling Everything Grill! We’re always discovering new things that we can do on our Sapling Everything Grill. So far, we grill and smoke food, bake wood-fired bread and pizza, and, when we add our Sapling...
by katemccabe | Jul 1, 2025 | Cooking with Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
Wood-Fired Baking on the Sapling Baking bread on the Sapling is easy, delicious, and fun! If there’s nothing quite like fresh-baked bread, there’s nothing at all like fresh-baked bread made in a wood-fired oven! We’ve made all sorts of bread on our...
by katemccabe | Jun 14, 2025 | Beyond Maple
In late June, we took a family trip down to Lake Wallenpaupack, a large reservoir nestled in the Pocono Mountains. (It’s a lovely part of sugar country. Check it out!) On the way home to Vermont, all the way back through Pennsylvania and New York, you could see...
by katemccabe | Jun 4, 2025 | Beyond Maple
Last weekend, compelled by a curious smell coming from the kitchen, I arrived there to find my teenage daughter engaged in that sincerest form of flattery: imitation. She, in fact, was in the process of turning the largest mound of dandelion petals I have ever seen...
by katemccabe | Jun 1, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
We’ve been making our own maple syrup at home for ten years now. In addition to giving us a productive way to spend March—not a small challenge in the muddy thaw that is early spring in central Vermont—it provides us with enough natural sweetener for a year’s worth of...
by katemccabe | May 29, 2025 | Beyond Maple
When setting out to remove invasive species, bring loppers, a hand saw, burlap, twine, a handcart, and a good-natured assistant! It was a little while ago when, inspired by a talk by one of Vermont’s county foresters, we started this series of blog posts about how...
by katemccabe | May 28, 2025 | Beyond Maple
A very young red maple seedling rescued from the garden and waiting to be planted in our sugar woods. Cultivating red maples in your sugar woods can help diffuse the virulence of pests, such as tent caterpillars, that would otherwise wreak havoc on your sugar stand!...
by katemccabe | May 27, 2025 | Beyond Maple
The peskiest weeds in your sugar woods will be Buckthorn, Honeysuckle, and Barberry, all three found and pictured here in our sugar woods . . . for now! It’s July. Exhale. Your syrup is bottled and shelved, your pans are cleaned and stored, and your maples are leafing...
by katemccabe | May 25, 2025 | Beyond Maple
It seems that a lot has been written about the connection between climate change and maple syrup making recently. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Just Google it. This rugged Red Maple seedling should live to be 100 years old, come what may. As we cowered in...
by katemccabe | May 21, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
This sugaring season, a guest of the sugar house had a good question for me. “What do you use maple in that others might not, now that you make your own syrup?” The answer was easy: salad dressing! Now that we are entering freshly-grown-green season, here...
by katemccabe | May 18, 2025 | Cooking with Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
Multipurpose for Multi-Season Fun We love our Sapling Evaporator for making maple syrup in the early spring. When we designed the Sapling, we set out to create an old-time, barrel-style evaporator to make maple syrup. Something beautiful, efficient, and easy to use....
by katemccabe | May 13, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
The family that sugars together, eats together! If your family is anything like ours, though, it is made up of people with different dietary restrictions and preferences. If you are juggling vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and dairy-free diets as well as serving...
by katemccabe | May 1, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Beyond Maple
Dr. Matthew Thomas graciously allowed us to republish this article on the origins of Vermont’s maple creemee that first appeared in the Winter, 2025 Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association newsletter. We’ve added subheadings for internet readability....
by katemccabe | Mar 25, 2025 | Cooking with Maple
Oy! The pressure. Good thing there’s baking. And good thing there’s maple. Here’s how to substitute maple syrup for other sweeteners. Stress-bake away! Hummingbird cake, a southern delicacy, shown here made with maple instead of honey, frosted with maple buttercream...
by katemccabe | Jan 28, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup
How to set up your DIY Maple Syrup Evaporator, The Sapling. The Sapling Evaporator is a great way to get started making your own maple syrup! We’ve designed this DIY maple syrup evaporator to support 5-50+ taps, perfect for the backyard sugar maker. The Sapling...
by katemccabe | Jan 26, 2025 | Our Company, Products and Customers
Like shiny things? The Sapling Evaporator is a classic, flat black with stainless evaporator pan and accents. Making maple syrup in your backyard has never been this easy OR attractive! You are seriously thinking about buying a Sapling Evaporator, but you have...
by katemccabe | Jan 22, 2025 | About Maple Syrup, Cooking with Maple
Ever hear that Maple Syrup is good for you? Wonder if it’s true? We did too! So we did the research and here is what we found. Here at the Vermont Evaporator Company, we love substituting maple syrup for white sugar in our recipes. We hear often that maple syrup is...
by katemccabe | Jan 17, 2025 | Cooking with Maple, DIY Maple Syrup
Although, traditionally, sap is boiled down to make maple syrup, you can also enjoy the magic of maple without making syrup. Sap collected from maple trees makes a delicious, slightly sweet beverage whether consumed hot or cold. You can even use it instead of water as...
by katemccabe | Jan 15, 2025 | DIY Maple Syrup
How not to miss your maple-syrup-making window! You’re going to make maple syrup this year, and don’t want to miss your window. You’ve got all your tools and equipment ready. (If you don’t check out our line of DIY maple syrup supplies!) But you don’t know when to...
by katemccabe | Dec 10, 2024 | DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Many of us DIY types make maple syrup in the spring to give away throughout the year. We’ve recently discovered the joy of rebottling our syrup in fancy, glass containers. We’ve also figured out how to transfor our homemade syrup into maple cream, candy...
by katemccabe | Nov 26, 2024 | About Maple Syrup, DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Hello everyone! It’s Elka McCabe, daughter of Kate McCabe, owner and operator of Vermont Evaporator Company! I have grown up sugaring, and the memories I have make the late winters in Vermont so much better. Sugaring provides an opportunity to get outside, socialize,...
by katemccabe | Sep 6, 2024 | About Maple Syrup
Maple Sugarin’ In Vermont: A Sweet History by Betty Ann Lockhart is a perfect fair-weather read for the Vermont history buff. With a tone that toggles between history-textbook and folktale, Maple Sugarin’ In Vermont traces the story of Vermont Maple from the early...
by katemccabe | Aug 29, 2024 | About Maple Syrup, DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Making maple syrup together is a great way to engage kids—both big and little—with art, science, history, and math! At School Whether you teach in a traditional classroom, a non-traditional classroom, at home, outside, or just want to learn more about...
by katemccabe | Aug 19, 2024 | About Maple Syrup
From picture books about sugaring in the olden days to modern how-to manuals for kids, children’s literature on maple syrup making is prolific, varied, and fun! It’s back to school time! You can tell by the chill in the evenings, the frenetic energy in your youthful...
by katemccabe | Aug 15, 2024 | About Maple Syrup
Inside the sweet world of syrup, a picture of crime emerges . . . Burglary, vandalism and heists, oh my! The hidden world of maple crimes, revealed. Maple Police Blotter Fraud – Vermont, July 3, 2020: Police have charged Richard Blackmer, 38, with dozens of charges...
by katemccabe | Aug 8, 2024 | About Maple Syrup
“The Maple Sugar Book” by Helen and Scott Nearing is an extensively researched, interesting, and surprisingly funny history of maple sugar making. In true grass-is-always-greener fashion, summer is sometimes a time for dreaming about when it isn’t so hot out....
by katemccabe | Aug 1, 2024 | Beyond Maple
Murder in the Maple Woods is a debut novel by Claire Ackroyd, a landscape designer and independent organic inspector from central Maine. Any lover of maple, mystery or Maine will enjoy this fast-paced murder mystery by debut novelist Claire Ackroyd! Where are the book...
by katemccabe | Jul 28, 2024 | Beyond Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
Syrups Beyond Maple from Silver Lake Syrups. Dandelion, Rhubarb, Caramelized Spruce Tip and Elderflower. Here in Vermont, maple reigns supreme. And, truth be told, it may always be our favorite syrup. But there are a whole world of other natural syrups out there. We...
by katemccabe | Jul 20, 2024 | Beyond Maple
The flower of the elderberry, which blooms in midsummer, can be used to make syrup too. While there are cultivars, wild elderberry like this one grows in most of Continental U.S. and Southern and Coastal Canada. Making elderflower syrup is a tradition that hails from...
by katemccabe | Jul 13, 2024 | Cooking with Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
Wood-Fired Baking and Pizza on the Sapling You don’t need a fancy outdoor kitchen for fancy wood-fired breads. The Sapling Everything Grill is an easy way to make wood-fired pizzas, Montreal bagels, flatbreads, rustic breads, and more. You can turn ANY...
by katemccabe | Jun 12, 2024 | Cooking with Maple, Our Company, Products and Customers
Recently, we were lucky enough to spend the day dry rub smoking on the Sapling Everything Grill with Mark Lawler, a specialty food maker, founder of Vermont’s own & Maple, and all-around good guy. Mark makes a no salt dry rub for pork and chicken for &...
by katemccabe | Dec 18, 2023 | Cooking with Maple
Apparently, cocktails have been around forever, and, while the popularity of cocktails has waxed and waned, fancy-boozy-drinks are currently very much on the rise. All three of these things can also be said for the—timeless, enduring and currently-in-vogue—taste of...
by katemccabe | Dec 13, 2023 | Cooking with Maple
Make Maple the Star This Holiday Season! Show off your homemade maple this holiday season with specialty food and drinks. Below is a round-up of our favorite recipes that highlight maple in our holiday celebrations. Latkes and Maple Mustard Dipping Sauce: 1/2 cup...
by katemccabe | Oct 31, 2023 | Cooking with Maple, DIY Maple Syrup, Our Company, Products and Customers
Last year, we smoked our Thanksgiving turkey and apple pie on our Sapling Smoker. Delish! Whether you are hosting or bringing a dish to share, consider wood smoke as a possible addition to your ingredient list this year. After having been smoked on the Sapling...
by katemccabe | Oct 30, 2023 | Blog
Every year, we give a portion of November’s sales to an indigenous cause in observation of National Native American Heritage Month. It is our way of honoring the origins of maple, a foodway that was first developed by indigenous Americans and which has been...
by katemccabe | Jul 5, 2023 | Beyond Maple, DIY Maple Syrup
The summer is a perfect time to start actively caring for your sugar woods. Here’s how! Every ecosystem requires balance, including the ecosystem that supports your maple trees. Due to human activity, balance is a bit harder to come by now than it used to be. But...
by katemccabe | Dec 28, 2022 | Cooking with Maple
Forget about champagne, how about a shot of maple syrup to celebrate 2023? Here are 34 more ways to ring in the new year with maple. Brunch Ringing in the new year with mape wouldn’t be the same without brunch! Try Maple Walnut Biscuits or Paleo Scones with...
by katemccabe | Dec 14, 2022 | Maple and Backyard News
It’s maple news time! The theme of this month’s maple news roundup: change. As much as the sweet taste of maple syrup stays the same, the maple industry and the larger food industry around it changes. Several changes in maple were evident this month....
by katemccabe | Nov 9, 2022 | Maple and Backyard News
Lots of news for the maple news roundup for November, 2022, including these major takeaways: Maple is moving west! And we don’t mean West Cornwall, Vermont! (Also, what’s a “derecho?”) Maple out west, you say? You bet! Western Washington...
by katemccabe | Oct 26, 2022 | Cooking with Maple
Pumpkin, nuts, poultry, and spice, we see you! But this year, we’re having a maple-forward harvest. Here’s how to have your maple morning, noon, and night (and eat it, too!) at this time of the year. It’s a maple-forward harvest morning with...
by katemccabe | Oct 12, 2022 | Maple and Backyard News
It’s October, and maple news abounds. In pursuit of sappiness? Check out this quick maple news roundup. New maple beverages are in the maple news. Pursuit of Sappiness by Mayflower Brewing Co. of Plymouth, Massachusetts is a Maple Brown Ale. Says the company...
by katemccabe | Sep 28, 2022 | Cooking with Maple
Maple recipes are anticipating fall by inclusion of seasonal staples like pumpkin, pork, root vegetables, nuts, and, of course, the apple! For our own Maple Sweetened Apple Butter, pictured above, cut 20 apples into eighths and place in a stock pot with 1 cup of apple...
by katemccabe | Sep 14, 2022 | Maple and Backyard News
It’s been a while since we updated you on current goings on in the world of maple. We’ve got a whole season to catch you up on. What happened in maple this summer? Here you go! Lots and lots of industry things happened in maple this summer. One of the...
by katemccabe | Jul 13, 2022 | Beyond Maple
Anyone who is keen on learning about or collecting maple syrup antiques should check out Virginia Vidler’s authoritative book on the subject: Sugar-Bush Antiques. Published in 1979, the book is way out of print, and contains some out-of-date pricing information....
by katemccabe | Jun 28, 2022 | About Maple Syrup
Maple nerd alert! The USDA has released the 2022 maple syrup crop statistics and boy are they sweet. (Sorry.) What kind of a year was 2022 for professional sugarmakers? Where does your state rank in quantity of production? Read on to find out all about the 2022 maple...
by katemccabe | Jun 16, 2022 | DIY Maple Syrup
We’ve previously named fall as an ideal time to identify maples. That’s because distinctive fall foliage helps to distinguish between sugar maples and red maples, which are often confused for each other. As it happens, even more features distinguish sugar...
by katemccabe | Apr 27, 2022 | Maple and Backyard News
Spring has sprung for maple producers and backyard enthusiasts alike. Here’s the latest on all things maple and backyard news! Maple News Maple news reports from the biggest maple syrup producing states and provinces are arriving at a brisk pace and are almost...
by katemccabe | Apr 12, 2022 | Cooking with Maple
And here we are, just winding down our DIY maple syrup making year. We’re hearing from many corners of sugar country that it was a banner one! But if you’ve finally had your fill of sugar on snow and fresh maple syrup on pancakes and waffles, here are some...
by katemccabe | Mar 30, 2022 | Maple and Backyard News
In some backyards, maple syrup making season is just getting underway, while in others, it’s wrapping up and time to think about other backyard pursuits. Here’s what’s going on in maple and backyard news now! Maple News While sugaring season is at an...
by katemccabe | Mar 17, 2022 | Cooking with Maple
Maple recipes for high sugaring season feature quick fuel for DIY maple syrup making! Here’s how to make your maple and eat it too! Breakfast! The most important meal of any day, expecially a day spent making maple syrup. Waffles are excellent fuel for a day of...
