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By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Mar. 18, 2016 - 4:26 pm
Above: Maple syrup on pancakes at Buck Hill Farm in Jefferson. Photo by Heather Phelps-Lipton.
Shake off the late-winter blahs and come celebrate Maple Weekend--actually two weekends of open houses--in the sugar shacks of the Catskills. The first of the... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Mar. 13, 2014 - 12:47 pm
Above: A man and his evaporator: Mike Porter in his Margaretville sugar house. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Forest Association.
Warm during the day, and below freezing at night: It's the beginning of maple syrup season. Maple producers across the... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014 - 10:00 am
Above: Photo by Bob Roney, courtesy of Willderhook Maple, Middleburgh.
Move over, Vermont: New York State produces almost a fifth of the nation’s maple syrup, and much of that comes from the Catskills, where dairy farmers looking to make a little extra... Read more
