Nova Maple Syrup Blog
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Welcome to Nova Maple Syrup! Nova Maple Syrup is family produced in Northwest Pennsylvania, sustainably harvested from our own hardwood forests. We pride ourselves on making the best syrup possible, and are confident you'll enjoy eating it as much as we enjoy making it! On our blog, we have curated our learnings while making maple syrup for you to pick up.
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
3d ago
Checkout our annual one second every day from the 2024 maple season! ..read more
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2w ago
Last fall we posted twice about our new pumphouse and new vacuum pumps. Here are a few pictures of the double pumps installed at our Roemer and Brass road properties. We ended up running dual pumps while tapping. This doubled our vacuum from ~5-10 to 10-20″ on the days we were drilling. We then left ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
1M ago
What a year 2024 has been! We’re currently pulling spouts and tying up loose ends. Here are some highlights from our 9th season 68 days, January 15th – April 1st. Second longest season (2018 went 89 days with two extended freeze ups) Most sap ever collected, beat our previous best in 2023 by 13%. Sugar ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
1M ago
We’re still going strong despite the warmest season we’ve ever had! While the freeze on the 10th did fill the trees with sap, our tap holes were too far gone to collect a meaningful amount. With a decent long term weather forecast coming, we decided to re-tap around 2/3rds of our trees from the 12-15th ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
1M ago
The season that started strong may be coming to an early end. We usually run until late March/early April, but this year the last sap run may have been March 5th! We’ll know for sure tomorrow evening if this weekend’s freeze is enough to rejuvenate old tap holes that just experienced a week of warm ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
2M ago
We took a break this weekend and the boys helped us tap a black walnut tree! Not much sap yet, it may be a bit early in the year still. We’re saving what we get in the freezer and will boil it down on the stove when we have time next month, we’ll post back ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
2M ago
What a great start to 2024! We’ve already passed the 200,000 gallon mark for sap collected and it’s only February 12th, some years we’re not even fully tapped at this point yet! While the tap holes will surely slow down a little as they age, it will be very difficult to not make a whole ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
3M ago
Quick post since we’ve been extremely busy the last several weeks. On Monday we had our first boil and made 550 gallons of great tasting syrup. No early run golden like we were hoping for due to 50+ degree sap and a few hiccups along the way, hopefully the weather cools off and we can ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
3M ago
The 2024 season has officially started, today we started drilling at our home property! We intended to start last week but decided to postpone due to the wind, precipitation, and warm temperatures. All spouts/droplines have been prepped and mainlines have been walked so we should progress faster than usual. With any luck we’ll have all ..read more
Nova Maple Syrup Blog
4M ago
If you’ve ordered maple candy this holiday season, you may have noticed something different in your box. In addition to the standard small and large maple leaf shapes, we now have our own custom Nova candy mold! Back in October we 3d printed ~75 plastic copies and set them in two part silicone. We currently ..read more