The snow is melting in Vermont. The days are warmer, but the nights are still cold. This means maple sap is flowing, and Vermont maple syrup season is upon us! Maple Open Weekend is right around the corner in Vermont. Over 75 syrup producers open their doors for […]
I’ll never forget the first spring when I owned my home in Middlebury – a ranch on three acres with a creek and my own little maple grove. A neighbor from across the street came over with shiny buckets one early spring day. He asked if he could […]
Maple syrup has been—and always will be—part and parcel of the Vermont brand… along with cheddar cheese, Heady Topper and Ben & Jerry’s, of course. I didn’t realize just how versatile maple was beyond pancakes and creemees until my neighbor started tapping my very own sugarbush and giving me more woodsy syrup […]
This weekend is Maple Open House Weekend in Vermont… two days when sugar shacks across the state open up to visitors to share a behind-the-scenes look at sugaring in Vermont, along with tastes of the season’s first syrup of course. There’s nothing quite as delicious as the woodsy taste of real […]