Around the sugar house - Maine Maple Sunday

We made a quick stop to Merrifield's Farm sugar house yesterday to pick up some maple sugar treats. We ran in to a large crowd and the owner of the farm said that about 1,800 people pass through his sugar house on Maple Sugar Sunday each year.

We usually go earlier in the day to avoid the huge crowds but we braved the insanity because we REALLY wanted our maple sugar fudge and cotton candy. We've visited other farms in past years but nothing says Maple Sugar Sunday like the fudge and cotton candy (and of course syrup, but that's a second in the kid's book) and Merrifield's always has it all (as well as maple cookies, maple sugar candy shaped like a leaf, hard candy, etc., etc.).

The girls dug right in to the 6 pieces of fudge and it was a struggle not to eat the last piece we picked up for grandpa.

If you missed this spring celebration and are curious about how maple syrup is made (it really is interesting), here's a video from Snell's Farm in Bar Mills we made a while back.



We also caught some clips of the cast iron pot boiling method done in times gone by at Merrifield Farm in 2007 (also an interesting and even more of a time-consuming process than the modern method).