REGION – On Sunday, March 24 sugarhouses across the state took part in the 36th annual Maine Maple Sunday. The event is a tradition for many families who venture out to watch the boiling operation and sample maple products. After a painfully slow start to the season, Sunday was the first good day for […]
Maine Maple Sunday
Central Mainers sample maple syrup on vanilla ice cream, pizza
Following slow start to season, Maine Maple Sunday’s temperature hit the ‘sweet spot’ to collect sap.
Anson wedding was a little sappy, but that’s the way they wanted it
Maple syrup making is a long-standing tradition for Greta Tillson’s family, so she said it was only natural to get married at a sugarhouse on Maine Maple Sunday.
Local sugarhouses ‘pull it together’ for Maine Maple Sunday
Despite a slow start to the season, local maple syrup makers aren’t tapped out.
A sweet treat: Maine Maple Sunday on tap
The 36th annual Maine Maple Sunday will take place this weekend. While many sugarhouses celebrate on Sunday, March 24, several area maple producers will hold events all weekend long.
Sap running in most places, but slowly for Maine Maple Sunday
It’s been cold and the snow is still deep in the woods, but maple syrup producers have their fingers crossed that the sap will be flowing by the weekend.
‘It’s time’ to tap into maple season
Maple sap will be flowing with incoming warm weather.
Local sap houses visited during 35th Annual Maine Maple Sunday
REGION — During the 35th Annual Maine Maple Sunday, producers explained production methods to scores of visitors. True Mountain Maple owners Mark Prentiss and Kim Roberts of Industry participated for the first time. They built their sap house two years ago, adding a new evaporator last year. “Everybody does it differently. That’s what is so […]
Norlands to celebrate Maine Maple Sunday
LIVERMORE — Maine Maple Sunday will be celebrated from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, March 25, at the Norlands, Maine’s oldest living history farm and museum. A breakfast of hot pancakes and sausage drizzled in Norlands’ own maple syrup will be served in the historic farmer’s cottage and original 1867 Washburn family kitchen. The […]
Maple syrup producers hope for a sweet season
The weather hasn’t cooperated, but that didn’t stop maple syrup producers from giving visitors wagon rides, demonstrations and samples during the 34th annual Maine Maple Sunday. Tony Couture of Maple Valley Farm in Jay said he has made 200 gallons of syrup this year with most of it made in early February. Sap hasn’t run […]