News from the Sugarbush  

The big day arrived on March 2nd, the day the sap began to flow! Although Mother Nature was a bit early this year, we were ready and waiting.

         Dan, our property manager, and 4 seasonal helpers, managed to get 8000 taps and lines in place, and we are boiling that sticky sweet stuff just about every day. The smell out side the sugar house is heavenly!

On our 900 acre mountain, we have 3 different trails set up in our maple operation. These 3 trails comprise about 400 acres of the land.  To collect the sap from each of these 3 trails, we have separate line systems set up for each one. Ridge Run Trail has about 4000 taps, Camp Trail Run over 2500 and F250 Trail Run with the rest.

To connect a single tree to the tubing system is quite involved. A grouping of 5-7 trees are tapped and tubing is interconnected.   

The tubing is then connected to the Run Line, which makes it way down the trail to Main Trail Run Line and eventually down to the collection area.     Depending on the size of the Trail Run, there could be as many as 50 Run Lines. That's a lot of tubing for moose and other critters to make havoc with! 

Once the sap gets to the collection center, it is stored in the insulated tanks    until Dan processes the sap through the reverse osmosis machine. A processes takes about 75% of the water out of the sap and leaves us with a concentrated form.

The concentrate is then pumped into Ol' Sappy,    and trucked down the mountain to our Sugar House. Here it is boiled to that sweet treat we all know and love!

Hope you enjoyed the photos and come back again soon!

The Gang at Christies Maple Farm

March 2010

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Welcome to Christies' Maple Farm! We are a maple farm located in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Each spring,  we tap our maple trees at high elevations in New Hampshire's White Mountains for their crystal-clear sap, and then create the sweetest, best-tasting maple syrup around! Take it from us- not all maple syrup is alike.  

REAL MAPLE - What makes us different from the commercial packing houses? Big producers buy bulk syrup on the open market. Here at Christies, our personal hand is in the making of every drop of syrup from our mountain. 

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