Road's End Farm

04/12/2026

This is it! The peepers are out, the sap is barely flowing in, the sugar is down to 0.8, it's the end of maple season!

04/07/2026

Want to fill your freezer with delicious local pork just in time for grill and barbecue season? We can help! We have pigs ready to go to feed you! A whole pig is $650 and you pay the butcher fees! (A bit more than $1/lb) This is the last chance at this price as the price of grain has gone up quite a bit for us the last few months. The end of April and end of May both have pigs available. Message us to reserve one!!

04/07/2026

Quick snow storm this afternoon while the sap is running, pretty cool to see. The end is near for maple season here, red maples are giving up which means it's almost time to call it quits!

04/05/2026

Completed a successful test and wash of our new "Franken RO" that was pieced together with an old Lapierre head unit and a generic rig that had 2, 8 inch membranes. We ditched the old pressure pumps for a new 600 gallon per hour Procon pump. We will only use 1 membrane right now but we have the option to run 2 if we have enough trees in the future. If we get enough sap this week we'll run a test to see what kind of flow and concentration we can achieve. It flows around 700gph with permeate water at 300-350psi. It should reduce our reverse osmosis run time by over 3 times. It also means we need to tap more trees...and a small addition to our little sugar shack to have an insulated room to keep it in!

04/05/2026

Overlapping syrup seasons has begun. The birch trees are running!

03/27/2026

We are boiling 14 brix (%) sap tonight. With the extended run we have low sugar content coming out of the tree at 1.4% sugar. We use our reverse osmosis to help remove a lot of the water to save time and fuel (wood) in the evaporator. Also makes for a fun evening because it seems like syrup is coming out every time you turn around!! Technology comes in handy sometimes.

03/26/2026

03/22/2026

We are open and boiling in the snow all day here at the farm. Stop in to stock up on maple and give the birch syrup a try, you might love it. Free ice cream with syrup and free coffee to warm you up! There's also some girl scout cookies for sale!

03/16/2026

Running well in the rain, over the last 24 hours we've collected about 700 gallons of sap on 571 taps.

03/12/2026

It's been busy around here, forgot to post a "first boil" pic from the other night!! We're full steam ahead with syrup season 2026.

03/05/2026

Here we go! Taps are all plugged in...maple season has started.

10/21/2025

Haven't heard this sound in a few months!