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Seth Leach

Nov 28, 20165 min read

WOODLAWN FARM

How we got started was just my dad’s desire to start doing it. He grew up in a sugar house that was not a family sugar house, but as a...

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Nathaniel Baker

Nov 28, 20164 min read

SLYBORO HILLS FARM

My wife Annie and I once saw this little exhibit of a hobby evaporator, and she said, “I’d like to give that a try.” So we started...

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Greg LaPan

Nov 28, 20163 min read

BATTLE HILL MAPLE

As a young kid, my father and grandfather sugared, and then eventually my father ended up getting out of it because the dairy farm was...

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Mike Bennett

Nov 27, 20166 min read

BENNETT'S MAPLE

When I was about 12 years old, I had a riding lawn mower and I used to mow lawns all around Middle Granville. So now it’s Spring time and...

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Mike Grottoli

Nov 14, 20162 min read

GROTTOLI'S MAPLE

I first had an interest in sugaring when I noticed that the trees on my mother and father’s lawn were tapped, and so the curiosity was...

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Allen Wilbur

Nov 14, 20143 min read

LAKEVIEW MAPLE

I started making maple syrup when I was just seven years old. My grandfather happened to have a few stray buckets lying around and even...

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Matt Rathbun

Nov 26, 20133 min read

RATHBUN'S MAPLE SUGAR HOUSE

I got into sugaring when my father did it, and I can remember being a little kid, like six or seven, just going out there and watching...

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Kenn Hastings

Nov 25, 20136 min read

BREAD LOAF VIEW FARM

I grew up in this area, but I personally came from Massachusetts. When we moved up here I was 13 years old and it was a very rural area,...