Why we hobby maple syrup makers are so happy and fit! Ok, that may be overstating it a bit. Hobby maple syrup makers,...
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Our Indigenous Peoples First Cultivated More than Just Maple
Nov 12, 2021| 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...
Beyond Maple: Tasting Syrups Made from Trees, Flowers and Fruits
Oct 28, 2021| Beyond Maple, Our Company, Our Products, Our Customers
Syrups Beyond Maple from Silver Lake Syrups. Dandelion, Rhubarb, Caramelized Spruce Tip and Elderflower. Here in...
Apple: The Other American Syrup
Oct 13, 2021| Beyond Maple, Our Company, Our Products, Our Customers
A bowl of Cortlands waiting to be pied. Our secret ingredient? Apple cider syrup - another American tradition! There's...
Murder in the Maple Woods
Aug 18, 2021| Beyond Maple
Murder in the Maple Woods is a debut novel by Claire Ackroyd, a landscape designer and independent organic inspector...
Maple, Archeology, and the Other Vermont Evaporator Company
Aug 4, 2021| About Maple Syrup, Beyond Maple, Our Company, Our Products, Our Customers
This antique evaporator door was made by a Vermont Evaporator Company that operated a century ago. A customer...
Maple: The New Urban Tradition
May 19, 2021| Beyond Maple, DIY Maple Syrup
When you think of Philadelphia, you don't think of maple syrup. Right? Cheese steaks and scrapple, sure! (Also, Rocky...
DIY Maple Syrup: Caring For Your Sugar Woods
May 5, 2021| Beyond Maple, DIY Maple Syrup
The spring is a perfect time to start actively caring for your sugar woods. Here’s how! Every ecosystem requires...
What to Give with that Homemade Maple Syrup
Dec 6, 2020| Beyond Maple, Cooking with Maple
Last-Minute Finds that Pair Well with a Bottle of the Good Stuff We can’t tell you how many DIY maple syrup makers we...
Planting Maples for Posterity
Aug 26, 2020| 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...
Just Add Firepit: An Instant Backyard Staycation
May 23, 2020| Beyond Maple, Our Company, Our Products, Our Customers
This Memorial Day Weekend will find us in the garden and at the grill, as usual, but, after two months of family...
Baking Wood-Fired Bread on the Sapling Everything Grill
May 15, 2020| Beyond Maple, Our Company, Our Products, Our Customers
How to make delicious, fresh, wood-fire bread on the Sapling Everything Grill! Perfection: King Arthur Flour’s...
How to Grill and Smoke on the Sapling Everything Grill
May 5, 2020| Beyond Maple, Cooking with Maple, Our Company, Our Products, Our Customers
DIY maple syrup season is over, but grilling season is here! Here’s how to grill and smoke on the Sapling Everything...
Caring for Your Sugar Woods Part 3: Removing Invasive Species
Aug 9, 2019| Beyond Maple
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 2: Cultivating an Ideal Suite of Tree Species
Aug 2, 2019| Beyond Maple
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 Part 1: Mapping Invasives
Jul 26, 2019| Beyond Maple
The peskiest weeds in your sugar woods will be Buckthorn, Honeysuckle, and Barberry, all three found and pictured here...
Caring for your Sugar Woods in a Changing Climate: An Introduction
Jul 22, 2019| Beyond Maple
It seems that a lot has been written about the connection between climate change and maple syrup making recently....
Happy Christmas to All!
Dec 19, 2018| Beyond Maple
‘Twas the Friday before Christmas and all through the shop, machinery was whirring, with a chug, clang, and pop!...
Beyond Maple Sugaring: A Year in Homemade Syrups
Jul 20, 2018| Beyond Maple
The flower of the elderberry, which blooms in midsummer, can be used to make syrup too. While there are cultivars,...
Climate Change and Maple Sugaring
Sep 25, 2017| Beyond Maple
OK. Enough bucolic wandering through the forest to identify the best trees for sugaring. Enough feel-good homemade...
One America Homemade Maple Syrup Peaches
Sep 18, 2017| Beyond Maple
I know, I know. In my last post, I promised to discuss the effects of climate change on maple sugaring. And I’m sure...
One, Two, Three… That’s a Tappable Tree!
Jul 22, 2016| Beyond Maple
Now that the leaves are in for the summer, it’s a good time to think about which trees you’d like to tap for next...