Maple Sugaring in New England

Scrumptious recipes for pancakes, waffles, French toast and fritters that are perfect for topping with maple syrup.

In Vermont, French toast and pancakes aren't the only things being slathered in maple. You can be, too! I was immediately intrigued when I heard about the Maple Scrub treatment at the Avanyu Spa at the Equinox Resort in Manchester Village, Vermont. Maple is, of course, one of New England's most distinctive flavors, and as it turns out, it's not...

New England produces some of the world's best maple syrup. Order online for delivery to your door!

When Sugar Maple trees sprout buckets in New England, it can only mean it's maple sugaring season. Come along on a sugar house virtual tour and find out how to visit Lamothe's Sugar House in Connecticut yourself.

You can visit this 360-acre farm in the foothills of the Green Mountains in Chittenden, Vermont, or order their sweet maple syrup online or by phone.

Berkshire Berries makes 100% maple syrup in their sugar shack using only sap from Berkshire maples. Visit them in Becket, Massachusetts, or explore their online catalog.

This family-owned sugarhouse in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine, is open to the public and offers a large assortment of maple products and gifts.

The Massachusetts Maple Producers Association lists facilities in Boston that usually offer maple sugaring demonstrations during the February to March timeframe.

If you're interested in ordering maple products in bulk, turn to Vermont's Bascom Family Farms, which offers maple products for restaurants, food manufacturing and private labeling.

Want to see a working sugarhouse? Carman Brook Farm Maple & Dairy in Swanton, Vermont, invites you to see how sap becomes syrup.

Dakin Farm is more than just a maple mail-order giant--it's a place you can visit. Head for Ferrisburgh, Vermont, where you can tour not only the maple syrup cannery but a state-of-the-art smokehouse.

Fadden's produces pure New Hampshire maple syrup. Orders may be placed by phone, and shipping is available in the U.S. and several other countries.

Everything from maple syrup to maple nut brittle is made at this Ludlow, Vermont, shop. Also visit their Vermont country gift shop.

The Harlow family has made maple syrup in Putney, Vermont, since 1927. Order made-in-Vermont maple products online, or stop by for a visit. The farm sales room and Vermont gift shop are open daily from March 1 through late December, and you can watch the sugaring process on weekends in season.

Thatcher's Sugarhouse shares this Native American legend about how the first maple syrup was made.

The Massachusetts Maple Producers Association supplies these directions for making maple candy.

This map from the Massachusetts Maple Producers Association will help you locate and navigate to individual sugarhouses statewide.

Thatcher's Sugarhouse has this informative look at maple trees and the weather and environmental conditions that affect maple sap production.

The Massachusetts Maple Producers Association recounts this history of maple sugaring, from its Native American origins through the late 1800s.

The Massachusetts Maple Producers Association provides this directory of sugarhouses in the state.

Merle Maple Farm in Attica, New York, offers an annual open house, and online ordering for the most extensive variety of maple products I've seen--even maple mustard!

Morse Farm calls itself "Vermont's Premier Maple Attraction." You'll find free tours and maple tasting, a country store and an outdoor Vermont farm life museum at their Montpelier location.

Ready to get your hands sticky? Stay at the bed & breakfast at Mount Pleasant Sugarworks in Leicester, Vermont, during maple sugaring season, and you'll have a chance to lend a hand from gathering sap to stoking the wood-fired evaporator.

Head for Mason, New Hampshire, where you'll find this sugar house that makes maple syrup the old-fashioned way, with a wood fire. They have a gift shop and restaurant, too.

K.E. Farm sells its 100% pure maple syrup from Sturbridge, Massachusetts, online.

Visit this farm in Huntington, Vermont, or place your order for maple syrup or maple cream online.

Producing maple syrup since 1906 in Plainfield, Massachusetts, this sugarhouse offers a variety of maple products for purchase via mail or email order.

Make plans to attend this annual April celebration of syrup in St. Albans, Vermont.

Visit this maple emporium in Jeffersonville, Vermont, or order online from their selection of maple gifts and goodies.

Here's a round-up from the Vermont Maple Promotion Board of Vermont Maple Sugar Houses that sell maple products by mail.