A Family Tradition
Grandma Dawn and her twin brother Great Uncle David, who is still making maple syrup at the age of 95! It is because of Uncle David that Jon dreamed of being out in the woods making maple syrup himself some day!
Growing up, Jon visited this family farmhouse in Wisconsin and the sugar shack across the road many times to help gather sap and watch the syrup boil.
We continued to visit the Uncle David's sugar bush after we were married and later took our kids back to "help" as well. It was these experiences that inspired us to continue maple syrup traditions on our own farm in Michigan.
About Us
We have been married for 25 years and have 4 children. We enjoy homesteading and everything maple! Our syrup is still made the old fashioned way...collected by hand, no RO, boiled over a wood fire and gravity filtered.
Spring of 2015 was our first year making syrup and we boiled in our backyard over an open fire. We only tapped three trees, which gave us our name Three Tree Farm, and the end result was 1 quart and 1 pint of syrup!
During the summer and fall of 2015 we renovated an old barn on our property to use as our sugar shack (pictured below). We now have 250-300 taps, which yield around 75 gallons of syrup.
Our Sugar Shack
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