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How To Make Maple Candy
Mar 5, 2024| DIY Maple Syrup
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
Mar 2, 2024| DIY 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
Mar 1, 2024| DIY 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
Feb 13, 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...
DIY Maple Syrup: Why a Continuous-Flow Pan is Better Than a Flat Pan
Feb 1, 2024| 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...
How to Make Maple Syrup
Feb 1, 2024| DIY 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
Feb 1, 2024| 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...
How to Run Lines for Maple Syrup
Jan 23, 2024| 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...
How to Collect Maple Sap
Jan 20, 2024| 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...
DIY Maple Syrup: When to Tap
Jan 13, 2024| 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...
How To Tap A Maple Tree
Jan 11, 2024| DIY Maple Syrup
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
Jan 5, 2024| 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,...
The Health Benefits of Maple Syrup
Jan 3, 2024| 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...
Six Recipes for a Maple Cocktail Hour
Dec 18, 2023| Cooking with Maple
Apparently, cocktails have been around forever, and, while the popularity of cocktails has waxed and...
Maple Makes the Holiday Meal
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...
Repackaging Maple for Gifts
Dec 12, 2023| DIY Maple Syrup
Repackaging your homemade maple for gifts is an easy process. You can repackage your maple syrup in smaller bottles or...
Making Maple Syrup On A Budget
Dec 5, 2023| DIY Maple Syrup
Thinking of making your own maple syrup this season? Overwhelmed with decisions about what to buy, and how much...
Maple: America’s Indigenous Sweet
Nov 1, 2023| About Maple Syrup
First developed by the native peoples of North America, maple has always been an important food source in this...
Our Indigenous Peoples First Cultivated More than Just Maple
Nov 1, 2023| 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...
Smoke your Thanksgiving
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...