Meet the Branon family, sample products and take a tour during Vermont Maple Open House Weekend. See this family-run operation's newer facility in Fairfield with evaporators, reverse osmosis, interior and exterior tanks and more....
Meet the Branon family, sample products and take a tour during Vermont Maple Open House Weekend. See this family-run operation's newer facility in Fairfield with evaporators, reverse osmosis, interior and exterior tanks and more....
Enjoy historic maple displays with a focus on how our ancestors used wood to shape their lives. Learn about onoing research taking place at the farm about the winter firefly. Explore the Sugarwoods trail system and watch the sap collection process as it happens. Enjoy food from...
Baird Farm in Chittenden invites you to enjoy sugarhouse tours, tastings, boiling (weather permitting), music, beer, outdoor maple activities and more. Tree tapping at 1 p.m. on both days. -Courtesy photo / Vermont Tourism ...
Baird Farm in Chittenden invites you to enjoy sugarhouse tours, tastings, boiling (weather permitting), music, beer, outdoor maple activities and more. Tree tapping at 1 p.m. on both days. -Courtesy photo / Vermont Tourism ...
Eric and Sonja Withington are returning to their roots. Eric grew up sugaring with his uncle in his hometown of Barnard. Thousands of miles away in Austria, Sonja spent her childhood foraging fresh greens, flowers, berries, and herbs to create herbal teas, syrups, and home remedies...
Ana Fernandez came to Vermont on a whim last year when a friend told her about a job opening at Nebraska Knoll Sugar Farm in Stowe. The Michigan native is now spending her second season sugaring at the farm, spending her days (and nights) boiling sap, changing the...
"My great-grandmother started this farm in 1918. She ran a bed and breakfast out of the house and made maple syrup on the property. When my father was a boy, she introduced him to the Vermont tradition of maple sugaring. One of the things we...
Kenn Hastings knows all about catching the “sugar bug.” A sugarmaker at Bread Loaf View Farm in Cornwall, Hastings starting sugaring for a living 30 years ago.“There’s a love and passion that goes into being a sugarmaker,” says Hastings, 57. [caption id="attachment_5226" align="alignright" width="167"] Filmmaker Will...
On a thousand acres in Fairfield stand more than 68,000 maple trees tapped for sugaring season. The trees are part of Branon Family Maple Orchards, located in the heart of sugaring country in Franklin County, not far from the Canadian border. The Branons have been involved in...
