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Maple leaf. The Geauga County Maple Festival is a fair celebrating the production of maple syrup. It is the oldest maple festival in the United States, and one of the largest. [1] The fair takes place in Chardon, Ohio in the Chardon Courthouse Square District. Chardon is located in northeast Ohio, about 35 miles east of Cleveland. [2]
A sugar maple tree. Three species of maple trees are predominantly used to produce maple syrup: the sugar maple (Acer saccharum), [5] [6] the black maple (), [5] [7] and the red maple (), [5] [8] because of the high sugar content (roughly two to five per cent) in the sap of these species. [9]
The Garrettsville-Hiram Chamber of Commerce reports that at the beginning of the 20th century, Garrettsville was the largest center in the world for the processing of maple syrup. This was due largely to the efforts of Arthur Crane, who canned this maple tree product at a cannery on Windham Street. [ 5 ]
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The strategic reserve allows producers to keep prices stable — and the prices are not insignificant. Around the time of the heist, maple syrup was trading for $32 per gallon, or $1,800 per ...
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The sugar maple is one of the most important Canadian trees, being, with the black maple, the major source of sap for making maple syrup. [23] Other maple species can be used as a sap source for maple syrup, but some have lower sugar content and/or produce more cloudy syrup than these two. [23] In maple syrup production from Acer saccharum, the ...
Ahead of the 2015 sugaring season, the company purchased 7,000 acres of forest near Island Pond, at a cost of $5.5 million, [2] and installed over 90,000 taps. [4] During the company's first year producing syrup, it produced 35,000 gallons of syrup, which was stored on site while it worked to find and develop a market.