After some encouragement from family members we have decided to start a blog about our family's maple syrup business. Old State Farms is located in the northwestern part of beautiful Pennsylvania, Emlenton to be exact. We started making maple syrup, the year before we got married, in 2001 with 5 plastic buckets and 2'x2' stainless steel pan over an open fire. Seven years later we have 3200 taps and a 4'x12' commercial wood fired evaporator and we built a new sugarhouse in 2007, it's the building in the picture (a sugarhouse is the building where the sap from the maple trees is boiled down into maple syrup). We produce between 500 and 800 gallons of spring's sweet nectar each year. Among other things I plan to explain some of the details of how maple syrup is made, the equipment and methods used in the process, so if you are thinking of making maple syrup stay tuned. My wife is continually experimenting with maple syrup in the kitchen and if I can convince her to contribute to the blog she can share her advice for cooking with maple syrup.
Well that looks like a good start for now.
My brother-in-law was right, starting a blog isn't all that hard.
Joseph
3 comments:
Those look really great!
Hey, Joseph, tell your wife to get those recipes coming!
Joe-
Keep it up, man! Long time no see, but we're wishing you guys the best. (Jeff Hoffman, and family)
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