My boy Quinn checking out a sap bucket in Barrington, NH.

The spring sugaring season was in full swing last week in New Engand.  The maple syrup producers I spoke with seemed to expect an average or below-average harvest this year because of some less than ideal weather, but during the last week, there were several good days for making syrup - nights with below freezing temperatures, followed by daytime highs in the 40's.


Sap buckets and stone walls in Lyme, New Hampshire.


Wood smoke and steam pours out of the Sugar Shack in Barrington, New Hampshire.

I visited four sugar houses during the course of the week, and it was fun, educational, and delicious.  If you've never tried shots of warm, freshly made maple syrup or "sugar on snow" you're really missing out. I'd like to say thanks to all of the sugar producers who were kind enough to let me hang out and shoot their sugar operations inside and out.


Jacob and Megan Perkins peek out of the Fifield Sugarhouse in Thetford Center, Vermont.


Keith Fifield tending the sap evaporator.


Keith's sister Carol Perkins adding wood to the fire.


Chip Kendall at his sap evaporator in South Woodstock, Vermont.


The sugarhouse at Paul and Betty Messer's Sunday Mountain Maple Farm in Orford, NH.

Until next time...
-Jerry

        

 

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