Maple syrup..... do you make it?

Question

If you are a sugar maker ....how many taps do you have and how modern is your operation?

I would lovge to hear form as many as possible....the back yard operation to the 10,000 + operators

Oh would you please let me know state and town of you operation?

THANKS

Answer 1

you might be interested in this canadian site of  the prov. of Ontario maple syrup producers.  There are a couple of surveys regarding yields pricing etc. in different specific areas, also including #of litres per tap.

www.ontariomaple.com

Answer 2

If you set out to grow trees to make maple syrup, you can actually produce more and better maple syrup with silver birch than with maple, and get the bush producing faster.

We have a neighbor who runs a small operation, some 30 hectares of maple, does his own syrup making and has a pancake and waffles shack to bring city folk out to buy his syrup right at the shack. This brings him a price that is well above what the supermarket chains will pay.

The customers also pay to be pulled around the bush on a sleigh when there is snow.

They sell product from other sugar bush operations too, because they have the customer base. ( close to London On.)

Our climate often is too warm, we  often do not get the prolonged season of freezing nights and warm sunny days that makes the maple sap flow.

They have a plastic pipe collection system. Driving around with wheels or sleigh tended to cut up the bush too much.

Answer 3

no it comes from a maple tree and then u have to add the sweetness to it

Answer 4

My family has about 300 trees, and about 500 taps. In a good year, we will produce about 140 gallons of finished syrup. This is the third year we've had the woods tubed. Saves lots of labor. The evaporator is fueled by wood. We're in the lower peninsula of Michigan.