A new episode of TAUNY’s Traditions of the Season video series was released on April 14. “Yancey’s Sugarbush: First Crop of the Year” is a 30-minute documentary that features a family-owned sugaring operation in Croghan that has been in the Yancy family since 1844.

Haskell and Jane Yancey, the fourth generation working in the sugarbush, made the most of a short 2021 season, with the help of their children and other seasonal helpers.

The video, filmed and produced by TAUNY Communications Director Xiuke Wei, documents the entire process of sugaring, from tapping the trees, gathering sap with horses and tractors, to boiling and canning. Over the years, the Yanceys have resisted pressures to convert entirely to the use of plastic tubing and vacuum pumps for gathering sap, and continue to gather with buckets and horse-drawn tanks as well.

Each sugaring season, the Yanceys receive visitors from all around the North Country and beyond.

To them, sugaring is a family tradition, and a connection to the community that they have built over the years.

To watch “Yancey’s Sugarbush: First Crop of the Year” go to https://youtu.be/R2OetBYCy5E Earlier episodes from the Traditions of the Seasons series are also available on TAUNY’s YouTube channel.

Is there a tradition that you carry on, or love seeing happen around you at this time of year, that you'd like to tell TAUNY about or see represented in a future video? Drop the organization a line at xiuke@tauny.org.

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