From Our Blog
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...
Five Maple Salad Dressings
Last sugaring season, a guest of the sugar house had a good question for us. "What do you use maple in that others...
Doing (Just About) Everything on the Sapling Everything Grill
Cheers! You can do (just about) everything on the Sapling Everything Grill! We're always discovering new things that...
Grilling on the Sapling
Multipurpose for Multi-Season Fun We love our Sapling Evaporator for making maple syrup in the early spring. When we...
Cooking Without Thinking: The Maple Edition
Lunching with perfection here on cobb salad with maple mustard vinaigrette. To emulate, add to your favorite hearty...
DIY Maple Syrup: Making, Filtering and Storing Syrup
You’ve tapped your maple trees. You have been collecting and storing sap. The weekend approaches. It’s time to boil...
Where is Maple Made? The Surprising Breadth of Maple Country.
When we think about where maple syrup is made, we are typically thinking about Vermont and Quebec. It is true that...
DIY Maple Syrup: Making Maple Cream, Candy and Sugar
Making maple syrup was the hard part. Here’s how to turn your homemade maple syrup into maple cream, maple...
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...
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...
End of Season Clean Up: Pulling Taps and Flushing Lines
It Was the Best of Years, It Was the Worst of Years 2023 was our first sugaring with lines. We mapped our sugar woods...
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....