WATCH: Maple Syrup Producer Creates Syrup used for This Weekend’s Maple Syrup Fest in Vergas

Apr 7, 2022 | 12:08 PM

VERGAS (KDLM) – Maple syrup lovers will flock to the small community of Vergas this weekend for the annual Maple Syrup fest.

The festival, which will be held Saturday features a pancake feed from 8-11 a.m. at the Vergas Event Center with real Maple syrup, a 5K walk/run, horse drawn wagon rides, and plenty of Maple syrup to be purchased from local businesses and retailers.

Tom Franklin, a local Maple syrup producer says the process starts with a ‘sugarbush’, “so a sugarbush is a dense forest of Maple trees, you might have Maple trees throughout your woods, but a sugarbush is where there’s a whole bunch of Maple trees.”

Producers tap Maple trees each spring to collect the tree sap. It takes around 40 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of Maple syrup by boiling the sap to remove water and concentrate the sugar to make the syrup.

A video of the syrup making process in Franklin’s sugarbush can be seen below.

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