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The VMSMA educates consumers by providing information on how maple syrup is made, its nutritional value, how to cook with it, and promotes visits to sugar houses where the public can watch maple syrup being made. As maple sugarmaking is intertwined with Vermont's culture and history the VMSMA works with its related organization, the non-profit ...
The sugar maple is the source of maple syrup, Vermont's most famous export. The state mushroom is the bear's head tooth fungus (Hericium americanum), effective in 2024. [5] The Morgan horse became the state mammal in 1961. The Morgan horse is a horse breed originally from Vermont, and named for Justin Morgan.
Sweet Tree Holdings is a Vermont, United States, company that produces maple products from a sugarbush and processing facility in Island Pond.. The company was founded in 2013, [1] and the following year spent $700,000 [2] to purchase a vacant building, formerly a furniture factory for Ethan Allen, in Island Pond. [3]
Maple syrup is a syrup made from the sap of maple trees. In cold climates, these trees store starch in their trunks and roots before winter; the starch is then converted to sugar that rises in the sap in late winter and early spring. Maple trees are tapped by drilling holes into their trunks and collecting the sap, which is processed by heating ...
As of 2022, Vermont was the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States at 2,550,000 US gallons (9,700,000 L), representing 50.7% of the nation's total production. [175] In 2021, its production value totaled $56.0 million at $32.00/gallon. [176] There were about 2,000 maple products producers in 2010. [177]
According to CBC Canada, nearly 3,000 tons of the syrup, valued at $18.7 million, were stolen from a warehouse operated by the Quebec Maple Syrup Producers in 2011 and 2012.
The Proctor Maple Research Center is located on 180 acres (73 ha) of land on the western slope of Mount Mansfield.The facilities of the center are located on a spur road off Harvey Road, and its actively managed stand of sugar maples is located north of its small cluster of buildings.
Sugar bush refers to a forest stand of maple trees which is utilized for maple syrup. This was originally an Indigenous camp set up for several weeks each spring, beginning when the ice began to melt and ending when the tree buds began to open. [1] At a traditional sugarbush, all the trees were hand tapped and the sap was boiled over wood fires.