This sugaring season has started fast and furious for us here at Wild Woods Maple. We began tapping our trees on our traditional timeline and got it done in a normal amount of time. We had a few warm days which enabled us to get some leaks checked which was nice. Then after glancing at the forecast, I was surprised to see what looked to be great sugaring weather coming sooner than any of us had expected.  So shortly after finishing tapping the sugar maples we get sap from it was time to start collecting sap, no break for us! We cleaned all our tanks, releasers and got our vacuum monitorin ..read more

“There were nights I would work for a few hours to make something work with what I had only to take it all apart, call it a day, and hope I woke up smarter tomorrow.” — WWMaple The interior of our new sugar house is functional! We will always be tweaking it to make it better based on lessons learned, but it satisfies me to say it’s functional. To have a sugar house that actually resembles the one I dreamed of means a lot to all of us here at Wild Woods Maple. I imagined this mansion of maple while boiling in our old wood shed and while boiling in the first sugar house I built. I wanted a clean ..read more

We deliberated for a long time before deciding to offer a couple infused maple syrups. We hesitated because we wondered if we could find the time to keep up with it. We wondered if anyone would be interested in some of these flavors we dreamt of. We wondered if we should just offer popular infusions such as cinnamon or should we be creative and develop our own. Ultimately, we threw caution to the wind and infused some maple syrup. We made batch after batch in our home to get the ratios right and experiment with different flavors. We had a great time as a family working through this process of ..read more

We deliberated for a long time before deciding to offer a couple infused maple syrups. We hesitated because we wondered if we could find the time to keep up with it. We wondered if anyone would be interested in some of these flavors we dreamt of. We wondered if we should just offer popular infusions such as cinnamon or should we be creative and develop our own. Ultimately, we threw caution to the wind and infused some maple syrup. We made batch after batch in our home to get the ratios right and experiment with different flavors. We had a great time as a family working through this process of ..read more

Sometimes gifting is easy. You are familiar with the person and know just what they will love. You know what they need and what hobbies they are into and getting a special gift for an occasion is intuitive and easy. Other times, you may be unsure of the recipient’s genuine need and are unsure of what they will enjoy.  No one wants to give a gift that is not needed or may take up too much space in someone's house. A gift should bring a smile to one's face, have many uses, be genuine, and not introduce excessive waste.  100% real Vermont maple syrup checks the boxes. Vermont maple syru ..read more

After not breaking anything during our first year of selling tree sap from our sugar bush in Walden VT, we decided to install more sap tubing. We chose to run more lines instead of jumping into sugar house construction during the summer of 2021. This was a thought-provoking decision for us because without a sugar house for the upcoming sugaring season, we would have no where to boil our own sap. We really wanted to boil our own, precious tree sap. After all that was the point of buying land in the first place! “By tapping more trees and selling more sap we would be accessing the very thing tha ..read more

Cinnamon and maple syrup go together like a hand and a glove, a puppy and a lap and a tractor in a field. It is the quintessential added flavor for maple syrup and most producers who infuse their syrup have gone the cinnamon route. It complements the flavor of the already delectable syrup in a way that most find irresistible. The health benefits of cinnamon dovetail nicely with the benefits of syrup, adding value to the great flavor. We here at Wild Woods Maple have recently jumped on the bandwagon of infused syrups. We diligently did our homework before doing so, so we could create just the r ..read more

I feel a deep, center-of-my-bones connection to maple syrup, but why? It’s such a simple thing yet such a big deal here in Vermont. As a lifelong Vermonter I have always been interested, and in awe of sugaring season. Vermont crushes maple syrup production in the United States by a hefty margin every year. We do that even though we are one of the smallest states. There is an interesting history to this little state’s dominance in production and I love learning about how things got to where they are today. The tradition that coincides with the production of maple syrup here is hard to ignore. S ..read more

We had found ourselves some trees! One thing is for sure; you are not making syrup without a maple tree. To find land with a viable maple resource on it, at a fair price in Vermont is a nearly impossible task. We started floating the idea of buying land a long time ago. We looked at numerous parcels with very open minds and lots of optimism but they all fell through for one reason or another. We’re glad most of them fell through and I’m surprised at what I thought would work. We looked at land-locked parcels, really steep parcels on mountainsides and at one point I researched how to build a b ..read more

Flasks filled with real maple syrup. We spent a couple years searching the depths of the internet, the shelves of country stores and seeing what other producers were using as containers for syrup. To find a container we liked for our maple syrup felt like a surprisingly daunting task. How could it be so hard when we live in the maple syrup belt of the world? Nothing was easy to label, showed off the maple syrup’s beauty, came in different sizes like we wanted or worked for the day to day use as a syrup container should. I can’t remember how we found it but we finally settled on the flask and ..read more