Maple Grove Farm, Vermont – Dogford Studios

Maple syrup producing in Vermont. One of the world’s most natural products with one ingredient – maple tree sap, boiled down to a thick, sweet syrup each early spring.

I capture this handsome vintage tractor in front of the fine old 1907 Maple Grove Farm barn after a morning of strawberry picking at the nearby Four Corners Farm. Fine art prints available: https://edward-fielding.pixels.com/featured/maple-grove-farm-vintage-tractor-edward-fielding.html

I don’t know who first had the idea to eat the sap of a maple tree but I’m glad they did. Most likely it was one of the native people who live in North America long before the arrival of the Europeans or even the Vikings.

Up the Connecticut River in Vermont is Maple Grove Farms, the largest producer of sweet maple syrup in the USA. Canada still out produces the USA.

According to “Maple Syrup World these are the top states and providences producting this sweet syrup:

Province of Quebec, Canada: 7, 989,000 gallons harvested.
State of Vermont, USA: 890,000 gallons harvested.
Province of Ontario, Canada: 400,000 gallons harvested. *
State of New York, USA: 312,000 gallons harvested.
State of Maine, USA: 310,000 gallons harvested.
Province of New Brunswick, Canada: 300,000 gallons harvested.*
State of Wisconsin, USA: 117,000 gallons harvested.
State of New Hampshire, USA: 87,000 gallons harvested.
State of Michigan, USA: 82, 000 gallons harvested.
State of Ohio, USA: 65,000 gallons harvested.
State of Pennsylvania, USA: 54,000 gallons harvested.
State of Massachusetts, USA: 29,000 gallons harvested.
Province of Nova Scotia, Canada: 22, 000 gallons harvested. *
State of Connecticut, USA: 9,000 gallons harvested.

*The data for Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia were not out for 2010 when we published this article and were extrapolated from previous year. They are an approximation for 2010.

Maple Grove Farms of Vermont^® had sweet beginnings over 100 years ago when Helen Gray and Ethel McLaren began perfecting maple confections on the family farm.

These delicious sweets soon had many customers far and wide. The growth led to our existing brick plant.

We are proud to be the largest packer of Pure Maple Syrup in the USA, one of the largest manufacturers of Maple Candies in the world, and a national producer of gourmet specialty salad dressings.