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Here at Hall Farms, we tap 8,600 Sugar Maples each spring. All but 250 are tapped with plastic tubing, strung from tree to tree. Three of the two hundred and fifty are shown here. These buckets are the children's project, which were collected daily with our pair of Belgian draft horses, Buddy & Rowdy. Since Buddy is no longer with us, so now we utilize our 4-wheelers and a trailer to haul the gathering tank. |
| Here they are shown on their way to pick up the gathering tank for their daily collection routine for one of the last trips using our Belgiums. |
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After the sap is collected, production begins. On a good day, we can process up to 20,000 gallons of sap, in a 24 hour period with a yield of more than five hundred or more gallons of Hall Farms Certified Organic Maple Syrup. If you were in the area, you could tell that our maple production has started by seeing the steam roll out of the sugarhouse. |
| It takes many drops of sap to produce our Certified Organic Maine Maple Syrup and it takes many more to create our many value added products. Each grade is extremely important to our business. |
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Rod is checking the syrup. Is it sheeting? Another way to also check the density of syrup. |
| After the syrup reaches the proper density, it is filtered through this machine called a filter press. The filter press does exactly what its name says, it presses the syrup through to filter out any sediment or sap sand. |
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Once filtered, syrup is packaged in this state-of-the-art canning unit. We package syrup within minutes to assure the highest quality maple syrup available. This canning unit will fill 4 containers at any given time. We have the ability to fill up to 6, but usually use 4 heads on the canning unit. |
