BUCKETS

When taking possession of our house for the first time, our real estate agent left us a 4L jug of maple syrup as a house warming gift. Then, tucked in a corner of the basement we found a number of sap buckets left by the previous homeowners. That’s all it took to get Chris hooked and he began to research and develop our ever growing and expanding maple syrup business.

We began humbly, hanging buckets on trees and using sleds to collect and transport sap, trudging through knee deep snow, to a three sided, barely standing, ramshackle sugar shack on the hill. It was a family affair with everyone helping. Our youngest daughter was about five at the time and found it difficult to traverse the bush and in the course of collecting sap, spilled several buckets of it.
Impatient, Chris had words with her and in tears she came through the back door, explaining that the reason the metal buckets had slipped through her hands was because she was wearing two different coloured mittens.

That was the first and only year we used buckets. We now have a pipeline system in place tapping 1550 trees and hope to tap an additional 500-700 trees this summer. Each year we try to grow a little more and our goal is to expand to 3000 taps, enlarge our sugar house, replace and update existing equipment and develop a DVD of the syrup making process to show our summer visitors.

Come visit, see our current set up, learn how we make syrup and have a leisurely stroll through the sugar bush. Visit every year and watch us grow!

Syrup is available on location

Prices:

250mL	$ 8.00
500mL	$12.25
1L	$20.00

Selected specialty gift bottles and plastic containers suitable for packing and travelling are also available.