We would like to extend a warm welcome to you, and offer our hearty thanks for your interest in our small family farm.
The 2021 maple season is about to begin! We will have about 570 taps this year which doesn’t mean we will be tapping 570 trees. Some tress, the bigger ones, have two taps. Our plan is to tap on Wednesday, January 27th. There is heavy snow cover in the woods right now but we’re hoping to get a serious thaw and melt on Tuesday the 26th when the temperature is forecast to rise into the upper 50s. When the world thaws, the sap runs. The thaw will also make for better footing on the steep slopes and speed up tapping. After that, it’s wait and see. Snow is forecast for Wednesday night and Thursday, but we might see a little sap flow on Friday if the temperature gets up into the 40s. We’ll keep you posted. Once the trees are tapped, we make no plans outside of sugaring, and live at the mercy of the weather as it dictates when the sap will flow, and thus when we boil. We expect many sap runs and boils during our 4 -6 week sap season as they follow the rise and fall of temperature.
We had hoped to have visitors in the sugar house during the actual production of the syrup this year, and share the wondrous experience of fire, steam, sap and syrup with you, but have had to cancel those plans due to the Covid19 pandemic. Our sugar house is too close of quarters to allow for safe social distancing. Once we start making syrup, it can still be picked up at the farm by appointment, but no in-house tours will be given.
As we have not yet tapped the trees, we do not yet have syrup to sell. However, this is the time of year when we take reservations for syrup by the case. Customers who reserve syrup by the case get first priority when we start making syrup. If you would like to reserve one or more cases of syrup, please email us and let us know how many cases of syrup you'd like to reserve and we'll contact you as soon as your syrup is made. We will arrange payment when your syrup is ready. A case of twelve 8 oz bottles is $144. Syrup can be picked up in person at the farm, or mailed to you.
Pick-ups will be by appointment ONLY, and all comers must wear masks and practice social distancing while at the farm.
Please, NO drop-ins. This farm is also our home, and we appreciate your respect for our privacy.
We will continue to update you on syrup availability as the season progresses. Once our season is underway, we will also have syrup available both by the case and by the bottle. And YES! We ship!
We look forward to sharing a great sugar season with you.
- Michael, Wheeler and Doug
