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Caring For Your Sugar Woods
The summer is a perfect time to start actively caring for your sugar woods. Here’s how! Every ecosystem requires...
Caring For Your Sugar Woods Part 2: Cultivating an Ideal Suite of Tree Species
A very young red maple seedling rescued from the garden and waiting to be planted in our sugar woods. Cultivating red...
Caring for your Sugar Woods in a Changing Climate: An Introduction
It seems that a lot has been written about the connection between climate change and maple syrup making recently....
Caring for Your Sugar Woods Part 3: Removing Invasive Species
When setting out to remove invasive species, bring loppers, a hand saw, burlap, twine, a handcart, and a good-natured...
Caring for your Sugar Woods Part 1: Mapping Invasives
The peskiest weeds in your sugar woods will be Buckthorn, Honeysuckle, and Barberry, all three found and pictured here...
2026 Maple Syrup Production by State
Maple nerd alert! The USDA has released the 2026 maple syrup crop statistics and boy are they sweet. (Sorry.) What...
Maple: The New Urban Tradition
Urban Sugaring in Philadelphia When you think of Philadelphia, you don't think of maple syrup. Right? Cheese steaks...
Maple at Main Street Middle School
For four years, Vermont Evaporator Company helped teachers and kids make maple syrup at Main Street Middle School...
How to Smoke on the Sapling
Multipurpose for multi-season fun We love our Sapling Evaporator for making maple syrup in late winter and early...
How to Make Elderflower Syrup
In late June a few years ago, we took a family trip down to Lake Wallenpaupack, a large reservoir nestled in the...
How to Grill and Smoke on the Sapling Everything Grill
DIY maple syrup season is over, but grilling season is here! Here’s how to grill and smoke on the Sapling Everything...
From Polish Forests to Your Table: Birch Syrup with Bartosz Belina-Prażmowsk
An Email from Poland A few years ago, an email from Poland hit the inbox. Would we please handle the export of...
Dry Rub Smoking on the Sapling
Smoking Food with Mark Lawler of & Maple Recently, we were lucky enough to spend the day dry rub smoking on the...
Cooper’s Daughter Spirits and Black Walnut Syrup
A number of years ago, we acquired a very interesting customer: Cooper's Daughter Spirits, a distillery and cooperage...
If You Can Garden, You Can Sugar
Most of Us Sugar Makers Also Garden Several years ago, we surveyed our customers to find out what other leisure...
The Origins of Vermont’s Maple Creemee
Dr. Matthew Thomas graciously allowed us to republish this article on the origins of Vermont's maple creemee that...
Grilling with Maple Syrup for All Diets
The family that sugars together, eats together! If your family is anything like ours, though, it is made up of people...
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...
Identifying Maple Trees in Spring and Summer
We've previously named fall as an ideal time to identify maples. That's because distinctive fall foliage helps to...
How to Make Dandelion Syrup
Last weekend, compelled by a curious smell coming from the kitchen, I arrived there to find my teenage daughter...