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Pure Vermont Maple Syrup

Our families have been making syrup in Cabot and Marshfield, Vermont for over two hundred years. A passage by Hannah Davis Pitkin in Abby Hemenway’s Gazetteer of Washington County, Vermont almost exactly describes the scenes above:

"For making of maple sugar, the first five-pail kettle owned in town, Caleb Pitkin brought from Montpelier on his back, and sap-troughs had to be made, and the sugarhouse was two huge logs with the kettle hung between, the smoke and ashes inclined to blow towards you; the sap had to be gathered by hand, and where was it to be stored? James Pitkin told the writer, he could remember how his father provided for this emergency. In June, he peeled birch bark, soaked it, and sewed it with a strong wax-end, and thus made a large box, less the bottom, but he sat this on a smooth piece of bark, with a sap-trough under to catch the molasses, and he recollects many times eating biscuit and butter very near that sap trough."

Pints

Quarts

Half Gallons

Gallons

$7.00

$13.00

$25.00

$48.00

Fancy

Fancy

Fancy & Medium Amber

Fancy & Medium Amber

We ship syrup in USPS flat-rate boxes for $15.50 per box anywhere in the continental US. Each box will hold one gallon or more in various combinations of sizes. To order, send us an email at caleb@carpenterpitkin.com

Our methods today are only slightly more modern. We often use horses or a tractor to haul sap to the sugarhouse, and we use some pipeline in our collection system. Our sugaring operation is considered small by industry standards – we tap only about 1000 trees – and we like it that way.

Visit the Vermont Maple Sugarmakers’ Association for much more information about sugaring

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