As we plan for the future, our descendants are very much in our thoughts. Operating our sugaring business is deeply tied to being naturally sustainable and renewable. This is why we keep a watchful eye on all of the trees, the soil, the water, and the precious wildlife that make our woods their home.
As we have grown, we have made many time-saving improvements, from sap gathering and storage to syrup production and canning. But we have never strayed from our family’s personal commitment to the environment at all levels of maple syrup making.
]]>Real maple syrup only comes from maple trees, nothing else. There are no added ingredients such as ‘natural flavorings’, ‘natural colors’. Real maple syrup does not have any added sugars either. You will not find corn syrup, brown sugar, or high fructose syrup in real maple syrup. If the syrup you are buying doesn’t list the single ingredient as 100% maple syrup, you are not buying real maple syrup.
Buck Family Maple Farm is a single-source maple syrup producer. That is to say, our entire production process, from the sap of our maple trees to the packaging of the finished maple syrup, to you the consumer, takes place entirely on our farm. Even our sugarhouse, where all the syrup is made and packaged, was constructed by us from trees we felled and milled from the spot where the sugarhouse now stands.
Maple syrup production does not require intensive use of the soil or water such as tilling and pesticide use, only healthy natural maple trees.
Adding to our sustainable and renewable commitment in 2018 we became Certified Organic by the Vermont Organic Farmer’s Association and a Bird Friendly Forest by the Vermont Audubon Society.
]]>Buck Family Maple began over 25 years ago with a large roasting pan and two maple trees in the yard of our Waterbury, Vermont home. Today, we make syrup from 2000 trees on our Washington, Vermont maple farm that has produced maple syrup since the 19th century.
As we continue the maple sugaring history on our land, we hold a special place in our hearts and minds for the people who cared for this land long before us. Without their care and thoughts of future generations, the trees they tapped all those years ago would not be part of our forest today.
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