Jim Finen, co-owner of FineNmaple, Norwood, along with his wife Margaret, checks his maple syrup production during Maple Weekend tours offered the last two weekends in March.
Maple producers are running full steam throughout St. Lawrence County.
Steam is pouring out of sugar houses as evaporators boil down maple sap into syrup.
In addition to maple syrup, they are also making and selling maple cream, maple sugar candy, and other maple products.
A few are also serving pancake breakfasts, featuring their freshly made syrup.
Depending on temperature, maple season is expected to continue for the next few weeks.
Southville Maples is celebrating “sweet success,” in its tenth year as a maple producer.
Owned by Bruce and Kim Thompson, the family business continues to grow, and it now produces an average of 2, 500 to 3,000 gallons of maple syrup per year.
Justin McGrath, of Southville Maples, shows the reverse osmosis machine used to take water out of the sap, significantly cutting down the boiling time of the evaporator and saving fuel costs. The family business is now in its tenth year.
Eating pancakes with fresh maple syrup at FineNmaple, Norwood, are, from left, Lyman, Edwin and Gabby Martineau.
Bruce and Kim Thompson, owners of Southville Maples, stand near a display of their maple syrup during Maple Weekends events.
George and Lyra Tulloch view sap collected with both buckets and tubing while touring the sugar maple bushes on a horse-drawn wagon at FineNmaple, Norwood.
Two Canton Central School classes had a “sweet” experience recently at Sweeter Creations Sugar House, a Waddington maple producer. Students helped make maple products. Here are owner Michael Kenny, left, and Charlie Hitchman. Submitted photo
Maureen Ring, 4-H Program Educator, points out some of the 1,000 tree taps and green tubing used to collect sap from the sugar maples on the St. Lawrence Cornell Cooperative Extension’s 20-acre sugar bush in Canton.
