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Mark Harran, President MSPAC

Maple Syrup Producers Association
of Connecticut CONNECTICUT
79 East Chestnut Hill Road
Litchfield, CT 06759
(860) 567-3805
MAPLE
WEEKEND
March 21-22, 2020
Visit ctmaple.org for more info!

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Connecticut (MSPAC). The ous
traditional season to make maple es
syrup in Connecticut extends from
early February until late March. This aple
is called “the sugaring season”. s t e M ts
Freezing nights and warm, sunny CHECK OUT OUR Ta oduc
days are necessary for the maple Pr
tree to yield sap, a colorless liquid BLOG!
with a light, sweet taste (2%-4%
sugar). Maple syrup producers, http://www.ctmaple.org/blog
also referred to as sugarmakers, Take Something
collect this maple sap, and through
Home
boiling, the maple taste and am- THANK YOU!
ber color are formed. We hope you
enjoy reading more about MSPAC,
syrup making and all things maple!
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PARTICIPANTS The fundamental steps for making
pure maple syrup are basically the
BY TOWN same as they were hundreds of
years ago. The simple description is
that you collect sap from sugar
Sabine’s Sugar maple trees and boil (evaporate) it
House until it reaches the proper density
Contact info: for syrup. The five steps involved
from start to finish are:
Jack Sabine
(1) preparing for the season;
860 550 4953 (2) determining WHEN to tap;
Open hours: (3) identifying the trees to be
9AM to 3PM tapped and tapping them,
(4) collecting the sap and
SY processing (boiling/evaporating) it;
RU Plymouth Maple (5) filtering, grading and packing
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Festival the syrup. For a full description of
CANDY the step-by-step process, download
10 Park Street,
the Connecticut Maple Syrup
860-921-6118 Producers Manual. If you are
Open From: interested, contact us.
A M 10am -12:30pm
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KETTLECORN
Winding Brook
Flanders Nature Center, Woodbury; Sugar House
Bureau’s Sugarhouse, Lyme; 54 Skinner Lane,
Wilkinson Farm, Columbia; Hebron, CT
Lamothe’s Sugarhouse, Burlington; 06248
Wenzel Sugarhouse, Hebron (860) 228-0246
Sat-Sun
10AM-4PM