Yesterday, Patrick and I visited Turtle Lane Maple Farm in North Andover. http://www.turtlelanemaplefarm.com/ We found out there that maple syrup and honey were the only sweeteners for New Englanders for a long time. People planted the sugar maples on their property and the first harvest of the year was sap. Today I took a rain ride in Hollis and went down a road where one house was built there before Hacienda Esperanza was in business. These old properties were lined with tapped sugar maples. A little further down the road I found one property with these plastic jugs. This weekend was the end of the sap days. Until next year!
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