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Maple School: The Math of Tapping a Maple Tree
Oct 22, 2024| 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...
Maple in Harvest Food
Oct 17, 2024| 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...
Maple School: Why Does Sap Run? Science!
Oct 15, 2024| 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...
Baking With Maple Syrup
Oct 10, 2024| 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...
Preserving with Maple
Oct 3, 2024| Cooking with Maple
If your garden is anything like ours, you are currently experiencing an overabundance of (a) cucumbers, (b) tomatoes,...
Apple Cider Syrup: The Other American Syrup
Sep 25, 2024| 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...
Time to Identify Your Maple Trees!
Sep 23, 2024| 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...
DIY Maple Syrup: All About Sugar Wood
Sep 11, 2024| 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...
Maple Sugarin’ in Vermont: A Good Read for the Maple History Buff
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...
Homemade Maple Syrup Peaches
Sep 4, 2024| Cooking with Maple
Peaches canned in homemade maple syrup: a north-south, east-west delicacy. Our peach tree nearly toppled over with the...
Maple on the Hiking Trail
Aug 30, 2024| 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...
Learning with Maple
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...
Isn’t all Maple Syrup Organic?
Aug 27, 2024| About Maple Syrup
Pesticides and herbicides are not commonly used in maple syrup production. Does that mean that all maple syrup is...
Back to School: A Review of Children’s Literature on Maple
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...
True Crimes of Maple
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...
Six Notorious Pests of Maple
Aug 11, 2024| Beyond Maple
What could be a better warm-weather, maple-related blogpost than the bug-villains of the sugarbush? We’re talking...
Maple Sugaring 101: A Beach Read for Sugaring Folk
Aug 8, 2024| About Maple Syrup
“The Maple Sugar Book” by Helen and Scott Nearing is an extensively researched, interesting, and surprisingly funny...
Planting Maples for Posterity
Aug 6, 2024| 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...
Murder in the Maple Woods
Aug 1, 2024| Beyond Maple
Murder in the Maple Woods is a debut novel by Claire Ackroyd, a landscape designer and independent organic inspector...
Beyond Maple: Tasting Syrups Made from Trees, Flowers and Fruits
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...