Our trees are 2^nd generation and are all young and healthy with an average age of 50 to 75 years. Over 100 years ago the open farmland was abandoned enabling our sugar maples to establish themselves from seed trees. 

We manage our sugarbush by using the best forest management practices as defined by Cornell University, the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, USDA, and consulting foresters.  Well planned, appropriate forest management techniques ensure top quality maple syrup production, optimum tree growth, sustainable forests, and wildlife habitat.   Our forestry practices include constantly thinning to remove deformed, genetically inferior, multi-stemmed trees in the most sustainable way currently known to science.  Thinning the trees also promotes faster growth and trees with larger crowns, which produce more sugar with a higher content. Healthy trees will survive most natural disasters. We monitor for diseases such as lesions and insects such as the forest tent caterpillar and Asian long horned beetle. 

Our woods offer many unique woodland wildflowers that are enjoyed every spring by area garden clubs and hikers.  The wildflowers are photographed and studied.  Many wildflowers can be found at the base of maple trees when we wash our lines.  Prolific wildflowers in our sugarbush include spring beauty, hepatica, dog tooth violet, wild violets, blue cohosh, and mayapples.  Other edible plants include wild leeks, blackberries and grapes.

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