April 12, 2010 | Posted by admin
Well the Vermont maple sugaring season of 2010 is winding down. It’s always hard to say how well the maple sugar season will be each year. It all depends on the weather, how cold and warm it gets during the nights and days.
The 2010 season is over, but there is lots to pick up, clean up and do. It was an about average year for Vermont maple syrup production. Not a great amount but not too bad.
The actual maple syrup is very good quality, that never changes. It’s how much maple syrup you harvest that makes a great or bad year. It’s a lot of work in a short time, then it’s all over.
So try to pick up some brand new 2010 pure Vermont maple syrup soon and see how great it taste on pancakes, french toast and many other foods. Nothing beats the taste of fresh Vermont maple syrup!
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March 22, 2010 | Posted by admin
The Vermont Maple Festival is a food and arts celebration featuring various events such as pancake breakfasts, maple product exhibits, craft exhibits, a specialty foods show, antique shows and markets and more. Visitors can also enjoy maple candy- making live demonstrations, carnival rides, sugarhouse tours and sap run, and numerous concessions all dedicated to Vermont maple syrup.
This festival is held on the last weekend in April. Over 50,000 people go to the Maple Festival every single year, which makes it the most popular annual event in St. Albans. The sugarhouses are opened to the public and visitors from all over the world have the opportunity to experience lots of different events as each maple sugarhouse comes with something of its own.
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March 19, 2010 | Posted by admin
Well everyone, the 2010 Vermont maple sugar season has started! Actually it’s been going on for a few weeks now. When the days get warm all that stored sap in the maple trees expand inside the tree.
So it starts to pour out of any cuts and holes in the tree. That is why we drill those holes in the tree and collect the sap coming out. We hope the nights are cold. That’s because the tree sucks up more sap to replace the sap it lost during the warm day.
This keeps happening for a few weeks until the maple tree adjust to the warmer weather, and then it no longer has sap running out of it. So far this year it has not been very good maple sugaring weather.
It has stayed warm, so the maple trees are not pouring out a lot of sap. If it keeps staying warm the sugaring season will be all over in a week. But you never know about the weather in Vermont!
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February 25, 2010 | Posted by admin
One of the most well known companies of supplies for maple syrup making is Leader Evaporator Co. In business since 1888, they are the ones you go to when you need maple Syrup harvesting supplies.
Maple syrup is an excellent source of manganese and zinc and contains fewer calories and a higher concentration of minerals than honey. It is a good sweetener to use if you are trying to protect the health of your heart.
Such a great product needs to be properly displayed and marketed; for this reason, Leader Evaporator Company provides a complete line of supplies for maple syrup packaging, storage and shipment. Leader Evaporator has been in business since 1888, being the largest maple syrup equipment manufacturer in the USA.
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May 26, 2008 | Posted by admin
Well I hope everyone had a great Memorial day weekend. I had a pretty busy one myself. Well, today I thought I’d tell you a step by step recipe on how to use that great pure Vermont maple syrup to make maple sugar candy. It’s really easy, but there are a few tricks you need to know so you don’t make a huge mess! (more…)
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May 11, 2008 | Posted by admin
Hi everyone, it’s a beautiful Sunday here in Vermont. Well today I want to write a bit about how most sugar makers collect that maple sap the modern way. Now most people have the image of maple sap buckets made out of tin, hanging from tree to tree with a tin lid over it.
Now a lot of places still do that, even big operations in areas where that is the only way it can work. But today most places that make a lot of that pure Vt. maple syrup just tap too many trees to make that feasible. Heck some places tap over 20,000 maple trees! You would have to hire a crew of 20 to work non stop collecting in buckets.
So the maple sugar industry came up with a practical and environmentally safe way to make collecting all that maple sap a whole lot easier. Now as I’ve said before, Vermont is a very hilly state. You almost can’t find any flat ground around here. So, sugar makers take advantage of the fact that most maple trees are up in the hills above the sugar house. (more…)
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May 6, 2008 | Posted by admin
So how is everyone’s week going? Seems like they are getting longer and longer until the weekend, haha! Well I thought I’d make today’s post on the different types of products that are made from pure Vt. maple syrup. Yes there are a lot more uses than just as a syrup.
If you heat the maple syrup just right you can make all kinds of different things with it. From maple sugar, cream, candy, fudge and lots more, Vt. maple syrup can be used for lots of tasty products. Below is a short list of maple products that you can find. (more…)
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May 4, 2008 | Posted by admin
So what’s everybody doing this fine Sunday! The weather is getting warmer, I sure look forward to summer after this long winter. Well, today I thought I would explain about the different types of Vt. maple syrup grades. You see, maple syrup does not come in just one taste or color.
If its fake maple syrup made in a factory then they can pump out the same stuff batch after batch. But because real Vt. maple syrup is pure organic with nothing added, different batches can look and taste different. So, we made different labels for them.
When the sap first starts to run, it tends to be clearer and lighter, so the maple syrup is also clearer and lighter. As the season starts to end the sap gets a bit darker and heavier. Also sap can vary from tree to tree. So just what is the best grade of Vt. maple syrup? (more…)
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May 2, 2008 | Posted by admin
Hi everyone. Today I thought I’d write about something many people don’t know about. What is maple syrup? Seems like a no brainer, but a lot of people don’t really know the difference between fake and real maple syrup. What’s even more confusing is the labels that are allowed on them.
Just the other day I was in the supermarket, and picked up a very well known brand of maple syrup. Right on the label it said “100% pure maple syrup”. I was surprised at that, because I knew that could not be true. So I looked at the ingredients. Sure enough it was processed sugar, flavoring, additives, everything but maple syrup!
In fact it had no maple syrup in it whatsoever! Well how can they call it that then, they have to be truthful with food labels. Well, it’s because it just said it was maple syrup. NOT pure maple syrup, or Vermont pure maple syrup. The fact is, you can mix up some sugar and flavoring and legally call it maple syrup! (more…)
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April 29, 2008 | Posted by admin
Hi, and welcome to Vermont maple products. My name is Marice Perrault. I live in beautiful Fairfield, VT. with my lovely wife and three beautiful daughters. I was born and raised in Vt. and love it dearly, in fact I have no desire to go anywhere else!
I have a passion for harvesting pure Vermont maple syrup. I love being out in the woods of Vermont on a late winter day, collected sap from the maple trees to boil down into quality Vermont pure maple syrup. I know Vermont has a reputation for quality products, and I try to uphold that. I make other products from Vt. maple syrup to, and also carry other products made right here in Vermont.
So I hope you read my little blog here about Vermont and how I make pure maple syrup, as well as many other interesting things about my home state. Enjoy my blog!
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