Stories about 'sugaring' from the Welcome to the VPR Archive

Sugaring

By VPR | April 10, 2007

Commentator Edith Hunter is sugaring again this spring – by fits and starts.

Sugaring

By VPR | March 16, 2007

Every year about this time, you can find one of commentator Janisse Ray’s neighbors in his sugar house, and every year she pays him a visit in celebration of this sweet tradition.

Maple

By Willem Lange | March 16, 2007

Commentator Willem Lange is celebrating an age-old New England tradition.

Warmer world could spell trouble for maple sugaring industry

By John Dillon | January 25, 2007

A warmer world may spell trouble for maple sugaring, Vermont’s signature and sweetest industry.

Maple Season

By Tom Slayton | April 14, 2005

Although this spring’s mixed weather has kept maple production on the low side, commentator Tom Slayton has found time to visit a couple of sugarhouses. It’s one of his favorite rites of spring.

Cooking With Maple

By VPR | April 1, 2005

With fresh maple syrup so available right now, commentator Marialisa Calta has some advice for cooks.

Interview: Sugaring the Old Fashioned Way

By Mitch Wertlieb | March 28, 2005

Warmer days and cool nights – it’s the height of sugaring season. The knack for tapping and turning fine sap into Vermont maple syrup is perfected over time, and it’s an art Carroll Towne has been practicing since he was ten years old. Towne is a 78-year old retired dairy farmer in Milton. Mitch Wertlieb walked with him recently along a snow-covered ridgeline that opens into a maple grove near his farm.

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Sugaring season

By Edith Hunter | March 18, 2004

Steam is rising from commentator Edith Hunter’s sugarhouse on the Center Road and so far she says it looks like a good year.

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Sugaring

By Vern Grubinger | February 24, 2004

It won’t be long till sugaring and commentator Vern Grubinger is already looking forward to this annual North Country Rite of Spring.

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Farmers and politicians give predictions on sugaring

By Susan Keese | March 24, 2003

Mild temperatures brought visitors by the thousands to Vermont’s sugarhouses this weekend for the second annual statewide maple open house. In colder areas, the sap that makes the syrup was running well-to-moderately. But in many parts of the state, sugar makers are worried that the warm weather, coupled with a late start, could cut the season short.