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Maple Syrup

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We have vacuum which pulls the sap out of the trees.  It flows through our tubing, into the main line and then its final destination, the collecting tank.  From there we pump it up to the house (1/4 mile) where we RO it.  Reverse osmosis is a process that removes the water from the sap.  As mentioned before, we have red maples which have less sugar in the sap than sugar maples.  So this process will remove the water - we bring it to 8% sugar then we boil it.  Sugar maple sap is primarily 2-4% sugar.  Ours averages 1% sugar before the reverse osmosis process.

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You can find our maple syrup at our farmstand, Gilmanton's Own and select farmer's markets.

We are a small operation, just the two of us.  In 2024 we had 474 taps and made 85 gallons of maple syrup.

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It takes 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup.  These numbers are from sugar maples.  On our property we have mostly red maples so it takes much more sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.

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We made our sugar shack ourselves from hand hewn timbers.  We actually built it on skids to we could load it onto our trailer and move it around.  We ended up moving it from Pittsfield to our home in Gilmanton.  We have since moved it 3 times on our property since we have been here.

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We have a wood fired evaporator which we will always have as we believe it adds to the supreme taste of the maple syrup.

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