Nova Maple Syrup is playing soccer again this summer in Hermitage! Our team is currently 5-1-1 and in second place with two games left! We also have a youth team playing this year in Meadville (Picture not available)

This last weekend we were gifted a bottle of our backyard syrup from 2015, when we use to can in old liquor bottles! We also ended up with another one of our wedding favors from the 2014 season. With our ten year wedding anniversary coming up in two days, we may have to celebrate with some ten year old syrup. We’ll make sure the pancakes are a little more fresh though!

In March/April of 2023 we had two brutal wind storms, both the worst we’ve ever seen in eight seasons. While we only lost power for a day on the first storm, power was out for almost four days after the second storm. We decided to buy and install generators. The farmhouse now has a 26kW Generac that can power the sugar shack and pumphouse, and we have two mobile 10kW generators that we can take to any of the sugar bushes if needed. Hopefully we wont need these during the season, but even if we use them once they should pay for themselves!