With arctic blast wind chills below zero, there wasn’t much sap flowing for the 32nd annual Maine Maple Sunday. Despite the low flow, sugar shacks opened their doors and managed to please the throngs undaunted by the weather. In Livermore, Boothby’s Orchard and Farm was celebrating its 150th year. The orchard is lead by Rob […]
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Tribe says maple syrup operation gives people new hope
PRENTISS TOWNSHIP — The members of the Passamaquoddy tribe have looked under their feet for a bottled water plant and have turned to the sky for a wind farm. But it’s the forest that will be the first to deliver as the impoverished tribe seeks to become one of the biggest maple syrup operations in […]
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Maple producers go high-tech to monitor sap lines
The tubes that draw sap from trees straight to sugar houses often get pulled down or bent by falling limbs or chewed by critters, meaning sugar-makers spend hours and sometimes days stomping through snowy woods to find and fix problems — a big time-waster in a sugaring season that lasts just a few weeks. But […]
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Eats: A spring staple — Maple!
Don’t let all the snow and cold temperatures fool you: It’s the Sunday after the first day of spring and officially Maine Maple Sunday, the annual celebration of spring’s sweet nectar. Dozens of maple syrup producers across the state will open their doors today to offer the public a look at the process and a […]
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Maine maple syrup industry looks to sweeten its market share
KNOX — Could the Pine Tree State become the sugar maple state? Some state officials, tribal leaders and maple syrup producers say the answer is yes, but that it will take a lot of work and a lot of planning to sweeten Maine’s syrup industry so it becomes the national leader that Gov. Paul LePage believes […]
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Maine Maple Sunday returning to local sap houses
JAY — Maine Maple Sunday returns to Maple Valley Farms in Jay from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 23. So far this season, the sap run has been brought nearly to a standstill because of unseasonably cold weather, said Maple Valley Farm owner Tony Couture. “It’s froze up. It’s just not warm enough,” he said. […]
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LePage wants Maine to become a national leader in maple syrup
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage said Wednesday that Maine’s maple syrup industry could become a national leader if more people understood that there is substantial money to be made from one of Maine’s most abundant natural resources. “This is an industry that Maine could be leading America in,” said LePage after ceremonially tapping a maple […]