Maple Syrup

We did it! After several years of “almost”, we made syrup in 2008. Our sugarbush, with 309 taps (not bad for our first season- more in 2009!), produced a variety of sweet syrup from fancy to Grade B. We are proud to include 4 pints of our own syrup with every Vegetable CSA membership this summer. The rest you will find at our farmer’s market booths for sale in Richmond, Middlebury and Shelburne.

With the help of our two new draft horses, Herbie and Henry, and a sleigh with a sap transfer tank, we brought up our sap from the collection tank to the sugar shack. A big thanks to Nate (our farm manager) for putting in the extra effort to get this project off the ground.