Maple Farms

A group of senior missionaries took a tour of a nearby Maple Farm last Friday afternoon.  As we drove around the last 2 or 3 weeks, we've seen small “family maple farms”.  There might be a dozen or two sugar maple trees with buckets hanging from them.  Fun sights in this part of the world.  The farm we visited however, is 80 acres of sugar maple trees.  Trees of different sizes take one to 5 taps per tree.  A tree needs to be 40 years old before it is large enough to tap.  They have between 3 and 4,000 taps each year.  They use mostly buckets hanging from the trees, but you will see some that use plastic tubing.  They boil down the sap to a 1 part water/3 parts sugar syrup and sell the maple syrup in several sizes.  Gallon size is $40.

Here’s the entrance to the Everson Maple Store where we gathered for the tour.

The tour is on and Elder Poulson and I took up the rear to get some good pictures.