Our Conneautville sugar bush has always been tricky due to Thompson road bisecting it. We’ve always had one pumphouse supplying vacuum for all 5000 taps, with a 2″ vacuum line spanning 2,100′ to supply the west side of the property with suction. With electric ran two years ago for a new releaser, we decided to build another pumphouse for our second/backup vacuum pump . We’ll essentially have two separate sugar bushes now, with two different pumps individually supplying 3,000 and 2,000 taps. If a pump ever goes down we’ll still have the option to open the vacuum line and connect all 5,000 taps again. In addition to all of the freeze up issues with the vacuum line and releaser we’ve had in the past, we should have much higher and more consistent vacuum levels on each side now to extract more sap!

We have four new items available on our site for purchase.

• 4x Gallon Pack – Purchase four gallons, the most economical quantity to ship, and receive a discount!
• Commercial Grade (Available in 1x or 4x Gallon) – Late season syrup which has an off-taste and is too strong to be used as table grade syrup. With a much lower price than Grade-A, commercial syrup it is often used in certain cooking/brewing applications where the off-taste isn’t noticeable.
• Bulk Sugar – Our famous maple sugar packed in 45 pound bags
• Atmos 300K Defoamer – For use in maple syrup/confection processing
• Suppressor ORG60 Organic Defoamer – For use in organic maple syrup/confection processing

All of our syrup jugs are screen printed at the factory, however we hand apply labels to our sugar, cream, and candy containers. Seven years ago we started by printing everything in-house with our personal laser printer. Two years ago, after countless toner cartridge replacements and paper jams, we switched over to custom stickers from syruplabels.com. The new labels are much thicker, glossier, and look sharper than anything we could print. Our last shipment came in earlier this month and should get us through next summer!