Maple syrup production involves the collection of sap from maple trees, followed by a relatively simple processing operation to increase the sugar concentration of the substance. Costs for home producers are relatively high due to high capital and energy costs. In an effort to reduce these costs,...
This year’s warmer winter temperatures have allowed some maple syrup producers across the U.S. to begin tapping their trees as much as two months early.
Solar powered equipment and energy saving reverse osmosis/steam recapture systems keep our resource use to a minimum Family owned and ran by less than a dozen people. This is not syrup blended from hundreds of questionable farms. It is not repacked by a large corporation that doesn’t even ...
On Rt. 637 {Maple Sugar Road) southwest of Blue Grass is Puffenbarger's Sugar Orchard. A vacuum pump is used to increase the flow of sugar water, and miles of plastic tubing make it easier to gather. The process of maple syrup-making is started by reverse osmosis and finished by oil-...
“A unique polyphenol, quebecol — named after Quebec, the world’s largest producer of maple syrup — is found in maple syrup. A diet rich in polyphenols (also in some fruit, green tea and red wine) helps reduce inflammation and support a healthy immune system. Maple syrup [also] contai...