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Minnesota maple blog series: Making maple syrup at the Gordon and Lorraine...
Link to 2011 Maple Series Discussion Thread Join us as we follow this exciting season from Minnesota’s north woods with new posts every week! You can find all of the 2011 Minnesota maple blog series...
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Minnesota maple blog series: Timber Sweet
Timber Sweet is a family owned business that produces maple syrup, maple cream and maple sugar. Timber Sweet is located 8 miles west of Grand Rapids on County Road 63. Roots are in the woods Ralph...
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Minnesota maple blog series: Spirit Lake Native Products
The Savage family and their farm Maple stand (spirit lake) Spirit Lake Native Products is located on the southwestern border of Lake Superior Chippewa Fond du Lac Reservation in Carlton county in...
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Minnesota maple blog series: Updates from week of March 14
Sap Flow Mechanism from Peterson Farm – John Peterson We are tapping our trees today (March 15) in hopes the weather will cooperate for the next couple weeks. The main sap run has started as early as...
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Minnesota maple blog series: Charlie Nahgahnub and Updates
Spirit Lake Storming (Savage) Yep! It is March Madness in Minnesota and anything goes. Where else can you get a sampling of four seasons in one month apart from the Summit Sampler. But Bruce Savage of...
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Minnesota maple blog series: Fuel systems and updates from week of March 28
Fueling a sugarbush operation In the weeks leading up to the sugar season I found myself in the midst of several discussions about the type of fuel that “should be” used for sugarmaking. One individual...
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2011 Maple blogpost: Value added products and updates
Value added products: Before we catch up with our producers, let’s think about the variety of products derived from maple sap and how today’s producers are developing a niche through value-added...
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Minnesota maple blog series: our final post
Maple syrup (dwilsey) Alas, the end of the 2011 Maple Syrup season is fast upon us; another year of hard work and great fun has run its course, only to transition into new activities and events such as...
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Maple Syrup and Drought
Around this time of year, questions begin surfacing in some people’s minds about the expected conditions for maple tapping and for syrup production. Particularly in the last year or so, drought-like...
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It’s maple syrup season!
It is generally agreed that Minnesota’s maples are an “untapped” resource. Check out the maple syrup fact sheet reproduced from the Minnesota Harvester Handbook. This fact sheet includes information on...
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