Pat Jillson bottles maple syrup at Jillson’s Farm & Sugarhouse in Sabattus on Thursday. “We are off to a good start,” she said, adding that the sugar season came a little early this year. Jillson’s husband, Ed, said they had been boiling down sap for three days and had made about 50 gallons of syrup. […]
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Jay man arrested in maple syrup heist
WILTON — Police say they have arrested a Jay man in the theft of 50 half-gallons of maple syrup from a More Acres Road business. Brandon Hall, 24, a former employee of the business, was charged with theft and burglary Saturday at the Franklin County Detention Center, Wilton Police Chief Heidi Wilcox said. Police recovered […]
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Maple syrup producers face challenges in warming world
Parker’s Maple Barn employee Jon Jonis carries maple tree sap he gathered from metal buckets, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017, in Brookline, New Hampshire. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-NH, led a discussion with maple syrup producers in New Hampshire about how climate change is impacting their industry.Parker’s Maple Barn employee Jon Jonis taps a maple tree, Tuesday, […]
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Maple Mills starts sugaring in Northern Oxford County
WILSONS MILLS — With roughly 25,000 taps and 150 miles of tubing draining sap from maple trees down Aziscohos Mountain to a sugarhouse, Nick Staley is getting little sleep these days. Staley and his wife, Melanie, of Lancaster, N.H., are in the first year of operating the family business, Maple Mills. It is off Route […]
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Norlands hosting Maple Sunday breakfast
LIVERMORE — The Washburn-Norlands Living History Center will host a pancake breakfast and maple-sugaring demonstration on Maine Maple Sunday, March 27. The events run from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 290 Norlands Road. A hearty breakfast of fresh hot pancakes and sausage drizzled in Norlands’ own maple syrup will be served the farmer’s cottage. […]
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Maine 3rd in U.S. maple syrup production
MONTPELIER, Vt. — Colder-than-normal temperatures shortened the Northeast’s maple sugaring season this year, but overall syrup production in the U.S. managed to stay strong, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Maple syrup production was up 6.3 percent this season from a year ago, the agency said in a report released last week, and an […]
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Meroby Elementary School 2nd-graders visit sugar shack
MEXICO — Between rain showers Friday afternoon, 45 children from Meroby Elementary School took a field trip to Ray and Ann Carver’s Swift River Maple syrup farm at 275 Swift River Road. They came to learn how the Carvers tap 350 maple trees and boil down the sap into different grades of maple syrup. The children, teachers […]
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A sweet tale of homemade syrup from a homemade sugarhouse
Maple sap is running. Not just in the trees — it’s in the veins of many Mainers, young and old, who have maple syrup fever at this time of year. My memories of “boiling down” syrup go back to the kitchen of the family farmhouse, where a cloud of steam rose above three or four […]
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Sweet work: Porter welder specializes in maple syrup evaporators
PORTER — Tucked in the woods off a dirt road, quick sprays of sparks and the sharp spff! of a welding torch filled Bill Mason’s shop last week as he finished up orders bound for Windham, Minnesota and New York. His family has been in this small Western Maine town at the southern tip of Oxford County […]