First of all, we would just like to say that we are utterly blown-away by the tremendous turnout and warm reception that we had last weekend for the syrup release event at Molley Chomper. Holy hot cakes! THANK YOU to everyone who showed up, especially to those of you who travelled so far to be there and try our syrup. We met many folks from the Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston, Asheville, and Triangle areas. We even spoke with a father-son duo that drove all the way from the coast, for the second year in a row, to come to this event and stock up on our syrup. We continue to be humbled and amazed ..read more

Rutabaga hams it up with some bottles of syrup. The Syrup Release will be this Saturday, March, 23 2024, beginning at noon. Molley Chomper. 165 Piney Creek Rd. Lansing, NC We are looking forward to seeing you at our syrup release! Due to our robust sugar season, we have more syrup than ever to bring to Molley Chomper on Saturday and hope that everyone will walk away with all the syrup their heart desires. Looking forward at the weather forecast, it looks like there might be a small amount of rain on Saturday morning, but that appears to be tapering off before noon. Molley Chomper has a fantas ..read more

Saturday March 23, 2024, at Molley Chomper Cidery and Wine Bar, 12 pm. We can’t wait to see you on the 23rd for our annual syrup release! We will have all of our syrup available for purchase at this event, from our early, golden syrup across the spectrum to our red-amber, late season syrup. During the season, the color and flavor of the syrup changes daily, and our blonde, early syrup gradually shifts to the dark, rich syrup with a robust flavor that so many of you love best. If you want to try it all, we will be happy to mix-and-match bottles from different dates of the season, so long as su ..read more

Michael moving sap. Doug and Maeve in the sugar house. The sap flow continues and continues this morning, February 11th, though diminished considerably by the absence of a freeze over the last couple of days. The flavor of the syrup changes each day as the season progresses with hints of butterscotch, caramel, and vanilla starting to show up as the syrup darkens to a deep red hue. This last week has seen many days of temps above freezing, with nights dropping below. Any amount of freezing is enough to spur a sap run, but the longer and deeper the freezes get, the bigger the sap run that foll ..read more

We sold out of our 2023 Maple Syrup at the Molly Chomper event. There will be no online sale. Well folks, we are blown sideways by your turnout at Molly Chomper yesterday. Sending our warmest thanks and appreciation to all of you for taking the time to come see us and buy our maple syrup! Many of you were local, and many of your drove hours to be with us. We are humbled by your enthusiastic support. We spend a great deal of time by ourselves out here on the farm, working at all the different tasks involved to produce maple syrup. There’s a great deal of time spent in the woods running and rep ..read more

We hope to see you Saturday March 25 from noon until… for our pop-up syrup event at Molley Chomper in Lansing, NC. On Sunday March 26th at 2pm our remaining inventory of syrup will go live on our website. All the details for the Molley Chomper event can be found here. Wind blown maple samaras whirl around willy nilly falling where  they may Arriving timely, randomly thrown, the earth receives them, idling by, a place to land. And then! Their seeds  take hold. drink the soil,  test the sun,  and sprout new buds. Sapling whips  shoot aloft reaching,  seeking l ..read more

With the vernal equinox just around the corner it’s time to think about gardening and landscaping again. Tree planting in particular. The sooner the better. November is the best month to plant trees in Ashe County, but March is the next best. And elder Sugar Maple holding court in the forest. Sugar maples and red maples are two of the most popular landscape trees to plant around the house and along a driveway. Both transplant well and are vigorous growers. If you tune in to old farmhouses around the county you’ll notice that they very commonly have equally old sugar maple trees planted in the ..read more

With sugar making season in the rear view, we are eagerly looking forward to our syrup release party at Molley Chomper on Saturday, March 25th at noon! We hope to see you there! This is our second year hosting this event at Molley Chomper, and we have a lot of fun things in store for you. Our entire inventory of 2023 syrup will be on hand for purchase, and we will be offering syrup tastings. During the making process, we date each case on the day it was produced so that we can track the progression of the season in each bottle. Early syrup is light in color and has a delicate, almost floral f ..read more

Well, the “Big Snow” last weekend was mostly rain, with just a mini-blizzard at the end. This did cover everything with two inches of very picturesque, winter wonderland frosting. We will take what we can get. A wet snow at the sugar house. Steam from boiling sap rises from the cupola. The cold snap that followed the rain and snow triggered a moderate, three-day sap run. This fizzled out on Thursday when the temperatures got up into the 60’s again. By Friday, the Red Maple buds were swelling and crimson: this is the end-game for Acer Rubra. Michael and Wheeler pulled the taps from the red map ..read more

February 8th syrup. Perfection! If we are being honest, it hasn’t really felt much like winter before or during this Sugar Season, except of course for that whopping cold snap around the holidays. Perhaps much of that feeling has been in response to the lack of snow showers here in the mountains. We might be jealous of the weather that our fellow sugar makers get on the regular up north, but it just feels right when you approach the sugar house in the morning with snow on the ground. It somehow adds to the magic of this whole thing. Behind the scenes…. Well, that big snow that we’ve been loo ..read more