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Maple and Backyard News
Maple News Vermont set maple production records in 2020, maintaining its status as the nation's largest maple...
Maple and Backyard News
Maple News The news over the last few weeks has been 99% bad. Take a break from it by catching up with what happened...
Our COVID Promise
File under “Boring but Important” if you must, but here’s what we’re doing to keep ourselves – and you – safe! As...
Just Add Firepit: An Instant Backyard Staycation
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
How to make delicious, fresh, wood-fire bread on the Sapling Everything Grill! Perfection: King Arthur Flour’s...
Resolve to Make Your Own Maple Syrup This Year (It’s Easy!)
If you've identified your maple trees, everything else you need to know in order to make maple syrup in your backyard...
Something to Read: Giving a Book about Maple
Books make great gifts for maple lovers of all ages! At gift-giving time, my coworker and sister-in-law Nikki has a...
Sweet Company
How Vermont Evaporator is kind, responsible and thankful in business. Hi. We’re Nikki and Kate. We manufacture and...
Giving Thanks for Maple
Join us in observing Native American Heritage Month this year by giving thanks for maple! Nikki Whelley, Vermont...
The Maple King: How Maple Got Big
Oil had Rockefeller, steel had Carnegie, and F. Scott FitzGerald brought us the Great Gatsby. But Maple had a King!...
Why the Sapling Beats Homemade Barrel Evaporators
The Sapling Evaporator is engineered for maximum DIY maple-syrup efficiency! A while back, a prospective customer...
Happy Christmas to All!
‘Twas the Friday before Christmas and all through the shop, machinery was whirring, with a chug, clang, and pop! The...
Sugar From Trees: An American Heritage
The first chapter in the history of maple syrup is a uniquely Native North American one. First there were historic...
Who on Earth ARE we Backyard Sugar Makers?
City folk want to know: who ARE these people who make their own maple syrup in their backyards? Well, for one thing,...
DIY Maple Syrup: All About Sugar Wood
Not to be confused with “sugar woods,” a.k.a. the “sugar bush,” or “sugar stand,” “sugar wood” refers to the fuel you...
Dear Dads: Thanks for Helping us Build a Great Product!
Like great dads everywhere, ours are there when we need them, even if it means many hours of hard work designing and...
How to Operate the Seedling Urban Evaporator
OK, you know now why a continuous-flow pan beats ye olde brew pot for making maple syrup in your backyard. But how...
Why a Continuous-Flow Pan is Better than a Flat Pan
Seedling Urban Evaporator is a Continuous-Flow Pan and thus More Efficient than a Lobster Pot People responded so well...
Climate Change and Maple Sugaring
OK. Enough bucolic wandering through the forest to identify the best trees for sugaring. Enough feel-good homemade...
Do You Have Your Milk Money?
The third Milk Money campaign giving Vermonters the opportunity to discover and invest in local businesses, is live!...