The summer is a perfect time to start actively caring for your sugar woods. Here’s how! Every ecosystem requires...
Beyond Maple
Caring For Your Sugar Woods Part 2: Cultivating an Ideal Suite of Tree Species
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 in a Changing Climate: An Introduction
It seems that a lot has been written about the connection between climate change and maple syrup making recently....
Caring for Your Sugar Woods Part 3: Removing Invasive Species
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 1: Mapping Invasives
The peskiest weeds in your sugar woods will be Buckthorn, Honeysuckle, and Barberry, all three found and pictured here...
Maple: The New Urban Tradition
Urban Sugaring in Philadelphia When you think of Philadelphia, you don't think of maple syrup. Right? Cheese steaks...
How to Make Elderflower Syrup
In late June a few years ago, we took a family trip down to Lake Wallenpaupack, a large reservoir nestled in the...
How to Grill and Smoke on the Sapling Everything Grill
DIY maple syrup season is over, but grilling season is here! Here’s how to grill and smoke on the Sapling Everything...
From Polish Forests to Your Table: Birch Syrup with Bartosz Belina-Prażmowsk
An Email from Poland A few years ago, an email from Poland hit the inbox. Would we please handle the export of...
If You Can Garden, You Can Sugar
Most of Us Sugar Makers Also Garden Several years ago, we surveyed our customers to find out what other leisure...