Vt. Maple Products

It’s Monday again, time to start another work week! It can be hard to get going on a Monday I know. Speaking of hard, I thought I’d write a short post about,,rocks! One thing that anybody who lives in Vermont knows, is that we have lots of rocks. The state of Vermont is made up of rolling hills, valleys and rivers and creeks.

Under all those hills are rocks, lots of them! Vermont does not seem to have one single place where it’s flat, it’s all hills and slopes and rocks. Farmers that plant crops deal with rocks all the time. In fact most say their main crop is rocks! Picking rocks and stones from the field is a full time job.

It’s even a hard time to get a good lawn without rocks poking through. Hitting rocks with the lawn mower is just a fact of life here. Lots of places make rock gardens because you have so many, you might as well make something with them!

The streams and rivers here all have rocky bottoms and banks. We have lots of beautiful waterfalls from the streams cutting into the rocky ground and falling over the rocks to big pools below. Some great swimming holes are at rocky falls with big pools and holes in the banks.

Vermont also has lots of granite. In fact Vermont has some of the best granite in the world. They use it for tombstones, counter tops, statues, memorials and lots of other items. The hiking trails get worn down to the rocks below, making cool stepping stone like trails up the mountains.

So the Vermont rocks are both a curse and a blessing, depending on how you look at them. Digging in the dirt is very hard as you always hit rocks. Sometimes when home builders make basements they have to blast the rocks with explosives. Camping out it seems like your always sleeping on top of rocks!

But they make Vermont what it is, with beautiful hills and pretty falls in the streams. I climb rocks a lot in the woods when I’m setting up my maple sugar line and making roads in the woods to collect sap for that pure Vermont maple syrup. Just be careful when your out hiking and wear good boots or hiking shoes.