The race to bottle a year’s supply of maple syrup begins the moment sap starts flowing in late winter. Producers tap ...

Gold Shaw Farm demonstrates how to build a high-performance maple evaporator using reclaimed bricks for maximum boiling efficiency.

Discover how the Environmental Quality Incentives Program is helping maple providers improve traditional methods, making maple syrup creation more efficient and less wasteful.

Kate Whelley McCabe and Justin McCabe met in a warehouse in Ohio in 2000. They were recent college graduates with hard hats and management jobs, working for a big supply company. Now, two children, ...

From garage tinkering to an old granite shed, The Vermont Evaporator Company is a homegrown success story. Kate and Justin McCabe wanted a backyard system to boil maple sap into syrup. When they ...

Sugarmaking season is just a window of several weeks in Vermont — the time in late winter when nature provides the sunny, warmer days and freezing nights ideal for tapping maples. But the short season ...