The Sugaring Process
We rebuilt our sugar house in the year 2000 and we now boil our sap in a beautiful post and beam structure.
We still burn with wood, the old fashion way. We buy slab wood from a local sawmill and we also harvest wood from our green certified forest. We feel burning with wood enhances the flavor of our pure maple syrup and is the reason why customers and friends keep coming back for more year after year. We are busy year round canning, shipping, and maintaining our sugar maples.
We protect our forests by doing tree healthy tapping and we also support sustainable forestry.
Every year we look forward to a busy and productive season with our quality maple syrup from Justamere Tree Farm.
- J.P. Stretches the tubing in the early parts of spring. The tubing will allow the sap to flow to a central location to be gathered.
- A helper drills a hole in a tree so the tap can be inserted.
- Marian inserts a tap into a freshly drilled hole which will then push the sap into the tubing.
- The steam rises from the sugarhouse as we boil the water out of the sap to produce syrup.
- The boiling continues. Since it takes up to 50 gallons of sap to produce one gallon of syrup many hours are spent boiling.
- J.P. draws off fresh syrup from the evaporator as the boiling continues.
- The final reward after several months of manual labor.