McAtee Family Sugar House

03/17/2026

600 gallons collected over the past 24 hours! Happy St Patty’s Day

03/15/2025

Evening sap collecting with some of the best

03/11/2025

Our guest maple collectors, dropped off their sap only to get to help empty more buckets

12/01/2024

Lots of syrup still available. Let me know if you want some for your loved ones this holiday season!

03/14/2024

My office today

03/23/2023

Some baby shower diaper cakes and a dog towel cake

04/15/2022

Papa Fred C McAtee

AFTER HOURS WITH FRED…
If you have been in our dealership it is likely you have met Fred McAtee. He been a part of the G. Stone family since 1990, first as our Service Manager and in more recent years as an integral part of our Sales team. Every Spring Fred heads South. Not as far South as many Vermonters - the drive is just over an hour from our dealership - to his family's sugarhouse in Belmont, VT.
Growing up Fred remembers collecting buckets of sap with his grandfather and dumping them into 5-gallon pails on a sled to bring back to the sugar house. Today, technology has made the process more efficient with reverse osmosis, tubing, and vacuum pumps, but for him it is still a family affair. Fred and his wife Mary, along with their son Mike, and daughter in law Melanie all have full time jobs so the technology allows them to produce more syrup in the small window of time that they can devote to their hobby.
Having three generations of McAtee's all working together to carry on this tradition is really special. For the kids, having their Pop Pop drive them around on the tractor is almost as sweet as the syrup itself.
They tap about 285 trees and do sell some of the syrup, but it is not the money that motivates them to spend long nights and weekends in the sugarhouse. "My favorite part is just being with my family and seeing them grow up liking things that I grew up doing."
WIN A QUART OF MCATEES MAPLE SYRUP! Just respond below and tell us how you like spending time with your family! Winner will be picked by random draw on Monday, April 18th

04/03/2022

Maple-ing

03/27/2022

We will be having some sugar house fun today from 10-2! Stop by and check it out!!

03/25/2022

Thursday night boiling!

02/22/2022

The sap is flowing!!!

02/21/2022

Family time in the sugar woods!