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When you think
of making maple syrup, do you picture sap buckets hanging on maple
trees to collect sap? |
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Simply Maple is a
state of the art sugaring operation, set up in 2001 by Dale Gilman, a sugarmaker with a forestry degree.
Dale uses food grade tubing to collect sap from the trees as it
runs. |
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Dale's vision is to maintain a healthy
stand of sugar maple trees, while producing the highest quality
Vermont maple syrup. The steps involved in making maple syrup
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Tapping the sugar maple tree - the taps for the maple trees are a new,
smaller "health spout", which require a hole 1/3 the
diameter of conventional spouts
Dale has 2000 spouts or taps in 1800+ maple trees. The sap
runs from the tree into blue tubing, then into larger black tubing.
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The sap runs down hill to a stainless steel sap tank with the aide
of vacuum.
A vacuum releaser, pictured here, allows the sap to flow
into the tank. |
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Finally, all
of the sap is pumped up hill to a tank located next to our sugarhouse.
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The sap is gravity fed to the evaporator in the
sugar room, where the sap is boiled into syrup.
Dale uses
stainless steel storage and production equipment.
The evaporator is 4' by 14' and can boil 290 gallons of sap an
hour.
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The final product,
pure Vermont maple syrup, is
packaged either in glass bottles or in plastic jugs.
We hope you enjoy Simply Maple syrup!
Copyright © 2002 Simply Maple. All rights reserved.
Revised:
08/08/06 |
