KRUEGER-NORTON SUGARHOUSE
Shrewsbury, Vermont, USA
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Art and Trish, thankful that sugar weather has finally come!
Building our sugarhouse in the Winter of 1988-89. We built all of the buildings on our farm using traditional post and beam construction - complete with a "raising" party where many friends and neighbors helped to raise the building's frame.
Art and Trish, thankful that sugar weather has finally come!
The Sugarhouse
Our three products: pure Vermont maple syrup, maple walnut fudge, and pure maple candy.
Maple fudge, boiling on our wood-fired stove.
Ingredients: our pure Vermont maple syrup
Our three products: pure Vermont maple syrup, maple walnut fudge, and pure maple candy.
Making Fudge and Candy
We prepare for the start of the season in February by "tapping out" the sugarbush. We use small, rechargeable drills with a narrow bit to drill one or more holes in each maple tree (depending on the diameter of the tree).
Tapping Trees
Our compost bin, behind Art, is an important part of our gardening process - all household food scraps, weeds from the garden, and overipe zuccinis, are either fed to our chickens or composted. The compost is then added back into the garden over following years.
We hang the braids of onions from the dining room ceiling, and Trish uses them all winter. The dining room also doubles as our syrup showroom!
Gardening
Quart jars of our maple syurp labeled and sitting on the shelf, ready to be shipped out to our customers.
Our wood-fired maple evaporator. The doors are red hot!
Daily syrup samples from the 2015 season. The syrup actually got lighter at the end of this week, which is not the usual trend. We normally see the syrup darken over the course of the season as the sugar content in the sap drops.
Quart jars of our maple syurp labeled and sitting on the shelf, ready to be shipped out to our customers.
Making Syrup
How to Make Sugar on Snow
Firewood stacked and ready to heat our home all winter.
Firewood stacked and ready to heat our home all winter.
Woodcutting and Logging
Art with our horse, Teddy, all hitched up with the cart that we use to haul the firewood that we burn to heat our house and make our maple syrup, maple candy and maple fudge.
