Despite Warm Weather, It's Maple Syrup Weekend in New Hampshire
This weekend is maple syrup weekend in New Hampshire – true, you might not be thinking of sugar and sap given this week’s record breaking temperatures, but more than 100 New Hampshire sugarhouses are...
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View ArticleThe Sap Is Flowing This Year
As producers prepare for Maple Weekend, New Hampshire Maple Producers Association Treasurer Howard Pearl tells us what maple syrup and other products mean to the state economy- and how the sap is...
View ArticleSugaring: The Sweetest Science
Maple Weekend begins Saturday in New Hampshire, and that means Sugar Houses in the state are open to the public with boiling sap and sweet syrup to sample. And syrup producers around the state say...
View ArticleNH this Weekend: Tap the Sap
It's Maple Weekend in the Granite State. More than 110 farms and sugar shacks will be open to the public with demonstrations of syrup production, maple products to taste and buy, and hands-on...
View ArticleWord Of Mouth 03.23.2013
All of the pleasure, none of the guilt. Our Saturday show gets you caught up, in a convenient snack pack size. This week….A video game attempts to replicate the experience of autism; spying in space...
View ArticleMaple Syrup: Before The Sap Comes Out, New Labels And New Questions
It’ll likely be several more weeks before most of New Hampshire's syrup producers boiling their sap into maple goodness, but there are big ideas and changes in the air these days around syrup...
View ArticleA Late Start For Sugaring Season
Relentlessly bitter temperatures mean maple sugaring season is still a good way off. That’s according to Beaver Meadow Brook Farm co-owner Barbara Lassonde. She says typically, her farm in Warner...
View Article3.18.14: The Sugar Season, A Syrup Taste Test With Douglas Whynott, & The...
Today on Word of Mouth, a sweet conversation with a man who knows maple syrup. Emerson writing professor and author, Douglas Whynott joins us to discuss his new book The Sugar Season: A Year in the...
View ArticleSyrup Taste Test With Douglas Whynott: VIDEO
We asked Douglas Whynott to stay a few extra minutes for a sticky challenge: a blind maple syrup taste-test. The aim was to test his ability to distinguish between the various grades of maple syrup....
View ArticleIt's Maple Weekend- But Is the Sap Running?
This is Maple Weekend in New Hampshire, so we talked with Bodie Peters, President of the NH Maple Producers Association, to get his perspective on how the sap season is shaping up. With the unusually...
View ArticleN.H. Sugar Shacks Open For Maple Weekend
Dozens of sugar shacks across New Hampshire are opening up to visitors for Maple Weekend. A typical operation is Courser Farm’s Sugar King’s shack in Warner. The building is dominated by a huge...
View ArticleThe Sugaring Life
Maple time in New England brings out the essence of the trees and the character in the people. For those who love trees, a tongue-tip taste of fresh maple syrup is a sacrament, maple communion at the...
View ArticleFoodstuffs: Award-Winning Syrup Maker Keeps Old-Fashioned Spirit Alive
Each year the New Hampshire Maple Producers Association honors the state’s best maple producer with the Lawrence A. Carlisle Memorial Trophy.This year’s winner is the Fadden family, which has been...
View ArticleFoodstuffs: What Will A Late Start For The Maple Season Mean?
It’s the first week of March, about the time we usually see the kickoff to the maple sugaring season. But maple syrup producers are still waiting anxiously for the sap to start flowing.Howard Pearl...
View ArticleNH this Weekend: Tap the Sap
It's Maple Weekend in the Granite State. More than 110 farms and sugar shacks will be open to the public with demonstrations of syrup production, maple products to taste and buy, and hands-on...
View ArticleWord Of Mouth 03.23.2013
All of the pleasure, none of the guilt. Our Saturday show gets you caught up, in a convenient snack pack size. This week….A video game attempts to replicate the experience of autism; spying in space...
View ArticleMaple Syrup: Before The Sap Comes Out, New Labels And New Questions
It’ll likely be several more weeks before most of New Hampshire's syrup producers boiling their sap into maple goodness, but there are big ideas and changes in the air these days around syrup...
View ArticleA Late Start For Sugaring Season
Relentlessly bitter temperatures mean maple sugaring season is still a good way off. That’s according to Beaver Meadow Brook Farm co-owner Barbara Lassonde . She says typically, her farm in Warner...
View Article3.18.14: The Sugar Season, A Syrup Taste Test With Douglas Whynott, & The...
Today on Word of Mouth, a sweet conversation with a man who knows maple syrup. Emerson writing professor and author, Douglas Whynott joins us to discuss his new book The Sugar Season: A Year in the...
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