Allison Vallin Kostovick

Feb 13, 2024 | hachettebookgroup.com | Allison Vallin Kostovick |Ken Haedrich |Marion Cunningham |Terry Barlin Vesci

This is the sweetest time of the year! Come late February, when daytime temperatures begin to warm yet the nights still fall below freezing, it’s time to tap the sugar maple trees—and maple syrup season officially begins. A short drive along our road illustrates the popularity of sugaring season in our region. Some homes have beautiful old galvanized sap buckets collecting sap. Other places, like ours, use whatever clean bucketlike item we can find, which is usually a juice or water jug.