One thing that always puts a smile on our face is when we hear reports of our products out in the wild.  We’ve had two of these reports this year, with the first coming from multiple people! If you ever run into Nova Maple Syrup away from home, make sure to take a picture and send it to us!

Chasing 100 – a Backyard Ultra Documentary – At the 3:15 mark our syrup is front in center as athletes prepare their breakfast

Minnesota Maple Fest – Our friends who live in Minneapolis were attending a local maple festival, where one stand had samples of our granulated maple sugar!

Wow, it’s been six years since we made our last post about planting trees! We’ve planted a handful every year since then, at least 50+ total now. This year has been no exception. In addition to all of the fruit trees, we’ve also planted some pretty cool maple variations! Here are some pictures, which I’m sure we’ll appreciate in 5-10 years as they grow! Some of our favorites are the four  Japanese/crimson maple variations, weeping willow, sycamore, and gingko.

With some help from EmGi and his Trail3DPrint plugin, we’ve modeled and 3D printed all of our sugar bushes! We’re going to hang these in the sugar shack and print an extra one for the farmhouse (and our house too). We’re also waiting to print the trail map of our home property. We’ve added six new trails this year with a seventh in progress, that should put us around 6.5 miles. Each print took ~10 hours to print on our Bambu Lab X1C and used ~$4 worth of filament. Lots of cool things still to print this summer now that the season is over and we have a little more time on our hands.