Wild Woods Maple

Wild Woods Maple Pure Vermont Maple Syrup made from our forest in Walden, VT. We have a little over 6,600 taps and boil the sap in our wood fired evaporator.

🪵The wood is stacked! On to other projects.🪵 Today I was feeling it. Got 8 cords stacked in 6.5 hours. I took plenty of...
07/11/2026

🪵The wood is stacked! On to other projects.🪵

Today I was feeling it. Got 8 cords stacked in 6.5 hours. I took plenty of breaks, drank the fluids and I'm psyched for the day. I can't wait to put some of this in the evaporator next spring while making some syrup! Sugaring season can't get here soon enough, I love it!

Time for some stretching. And food. And sleep 😴





🍁Our 2026 season 🍁This year we started out buried in snow. Tapping our trees was once again very challenging but we got ...
04/28/2026

🍁Our 2026 season 🍁

This year we started out buried in snow. Tapping our trees was once again very challenging but we got more tapped than last year. Once the sap started running we had some very cold temperatures to deal with while processing the sap. We would love to insulate our sugar house!

When April showed up so did some warmer temps and lots of sap. We were inundated multiple times with huge sap runs. The kind of sap runs that take 3 days to find the bottom of the sap tank only to have another huge sap run. We set all sorts of records in the sugar house and made some more of the great tasting syrup our customers love. Our forest greatly outperformed our sugar house.

Right now we are pulling spouts and getting syrup bottled. We are looking forward to a great summer!

04/24/2026

🍁Our 2026 season ended yesterday.🍁

It was a long, snowy, cold and tasty maple season. No equipment breakdowns, we're not bankrupt and our family is in one piece. So I guess I would say it was a successful season!

I'm very excited for the various maple festivals that follow our production season. They are a great way to see some people and relax. Today we are headed to the to see how our art, photography, poetry and syrup entries did in their contests. But the main event for today is the youth talent show held at the festival!

We made a few hundred gallons more than we have ever made before in a single season!!! And I feel it.

We love making maple syrup. I woke up this morning sad to see this season come to an end and at the same time I am already scheming improvements for next year.

🍁This made our season!🍁The 2026 Kingdom Maple Festival held its first ever maple syrup contest and our Wild Woods Maple ...
04/22/2026

🍁This made our season!🍁

The 2026 Kingdom Maple Festival held its first ever maple syrup contest and our Wild Woods Maple syrup won "Best in Class" in the Dark Robust category!! We couldn't be happier! Our syrup was evaluated for density, color, clarity and of course flavor.

This was the first year the Kingdom Maple Festival had a syrup contest. It is where I grew up and was very excited to enter the contest and attend the festival for the first time. It was much larger than we anticipated.

We started our day with a pancake breakfast that benefits the St. Johnsbury Meals on Wheels. I got very full, ran into old buddies, kindergarten teachers and college professors.

I also met
and fell in love with their woodworking. The maple leaf behind our ribbon is their wonderful creation.

I learn a lot about syrup production at these contests. Our Amber Rich entry was actually disqualified from the contest because I graded it incorrectly. Our light transmission syrup grader said it was Amber, my eyes said it was Dark. I should have listened to my eyes!

Thank you to everyone who volunteered, put in long hours organizing and attended the festival. And thanks to .johnsbury for promoting the event!



Which grade of maple syrup do you prefer?

04/07/2026

🍁Chilly morning boiling sap yesterday🍁

I'm planning updates to the sugar house. Mainly some insulation and a heat source.

We just finished 3 big days of boiling. We made quite a bit of syrup and we are enjoying some well deserved rest today. Back at it tomorrow, looks like lots more sap in the next few days!

04/03/2026

🍁Meet our trees🍁

This was today's ride back from our pump station that delivers half our sap. The ground is starting to poke out of the snow and the sap is pouring in right now. This morning the ground was covered in ice but the sun has made a few rare appearances this afternoon, getting the sap going.

Our forest is the main attraction here and I probably don't mention that enough. Usually my hands are too cold to get my wireless phone out and create image files. (It has a built in camera) These are the sugar maples you can thank for our product. They make some great sap, I try my best to not mess it up.

Probably boiling again soon

🍁Our 2026 maple season is in full swing!🍁Our trees are thawed and the snow has melted a lot meaning it is time to make m...
04/02/2026

🍁Our 2026 maple season is in full swing!🍁

Our trees are thawed and the snow has melted a lot meaning it is time to make more maple syrup! We have had some great days both boiling and sometimes just watching our sap tanks fill. Our has made fire wood moving SO much easier.

We have made a little more syrup at this point this year compared to last season. Our best innovation this year has been getting a really early start. It feels great to wrap up the day mid afternoon instead of in the evening. Turning on the RO at 4am and boiling by 6am is my new fave.

Have a great day everyone!

🍁 has been our main packaging material for quite a few years now🍁I grabbed a few more bags the other day and got to meet...
03/18/2026

🍁 has been our main packaging material for quite a few years now🍁

I grabbed a few more bags the other day and got to meet Jim and see his operation in action. It is an impressive process he uses to make this compostable and completely natural packaging for our syrup.

Sylvacurl is made from wood and has always done a great job protecting our glass bottles filled with our maple syrup. We supplement our Sylvacurl use with brown paper and we reuse packaging we receive when ordering homeschool supplies.

03/18/2026

🍁Our 2026 maple season so far🍁

We have only just begun but everything has been going well. Trees are mostly tapped, vacuum is tight, sap is sweet and we are looking forward to a great maple sugaring season!

After a long cold snowy winter it has been refreshing to feel some spring in the air!

❄️Pretty slow going this year❄️But we're getting it done. An ice storm in January pulled the smaller trees in our forest...
03/01/2026

❄️Pretty slow going this year❄️

But we're getting it done. An ice storm in January pulled the smaller trees in our forest to the ground. Those trees pulled sap lines into the snow and it all froze in place. Add a couple more feet of snow on top of that and you have SLOW going!

All that being said, things are going well and we have lots of trees tapped and are ready for warmer temperatures later this week.

"Nobody likes a plain pancake"

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