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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!...
End of Season Clean Up: Pulling Taps and Flushing Lines
Here at Sugar House No. 2 in Montpelier, Vermont, it was our first season sugaring with lines. We mapped our sugar...
How To Make Maple Cream
Making maple syrup was the hard part. Here’s how to turn your homemade maple syrup into maple cream! Search the...
How To Make Maple Sugar
Making maple syrup was the hard part. Here’s how to turn your homemade maple syrup into maple sugar! Search the...
10 Reasons Vermont Evaporator Pans Are Better Than Amazon’s
Here at Vermont Evaporator Company, we pride ourselves on selling pans that are made to last, are good quality, and...
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...
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....
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...
Growing up Sugaring
Hello everyone! It’s Elka McCabe, daughter of Kate McCabe, owner and operator of Vermont Evaporator Company! I have...
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 Make Maple Syrup
You're ready to make maple syrup! You’ve tapped your maple trees, collected and stored maple sap. The weekend...
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...
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...
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...
DIY Maple Syrup: When to Tap
How not to miss your maple-syrup-making window! You’re going to make maple syrup this year, and don’t want to miss...
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...
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,...
The Health Benefits of Maple Syrup
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...
Six Recipes for a Maple Cocktail Hour
Apparently, cocktails have been around forever, and, while the popularity of cocktails has waxed and...
Maple Makes the Holiday Meal
Make Maple the Star This Holiday Season! Show off your homemade maple this holiday season with specialty food and...