Posted March 12, 200619 yr Backyard cooks savor taste of maple syrup Sunday, March 12, 2006 John Horton Plain Dealer Reporter Ryan Gogolin stands in the sweet fog, slowly stirring a frothy liquid bubbling in stainless steel vats. A hidden fire crackles under the simmering pans. The smell of sugar and burning wood saturates the air. It's 3 p.m. Thursday, and Gogolin's cooking up his first maple syrup of the season. A day's labor shows on his blackened hands and jeans. He clocked in after breakfast; he won't finish until well after dinner. The payoff for all this toil? About 50 ounces of golden syrup. Not even a half gallon. more at: http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1142156437145160.xml&coll=2
March 13, 200619 yr I read about the maple syrup industry in that old WPA Ohio Guide and figured it was long gone, but apparently this is still a buisness up there? Small producers represent a significant portion of Ohio's maple industry. More than 20 percent of the syrup-making farms identified in the last Census of Agriculture reported fewer than 100 taps. So is there a local brand of maple syrup from Ohio, bottled and sold in stores?
March 15, 200619 yr Ohio is actually the 4th or 5th largest producer of maple syrup in the nation. There are "sugar shacks" on farms all over most of the state, but especially toward the north-central and northeast part of the state.
March 16, 200619 yr Want to know how big maple syrup production is in Ohio? the producers have their own state association. Here's a link to it.... http://www.ohiomapleproducers.com/default.htm
March 17, 200619 yr ^ So what label should I (actually the collective you, since I'm in Louisiana) look for at the local grocer. No one was questioning the existance, just where does one purchase Ohio maple syrup.
March 18, 200619 yr Magyar... I'd bet at least one of these syrup producers has a webiste and would mail-order to you.
June 4, 200718 yr More than a drop in the bucket Ohio's maple-syrup industry ranks No. 5 in nation Saturday, February 24, 2007 Monique Curet THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Dan Brown is the fourth generation of his family to head into the woods in mid-February, take maple sap from their 2,800 trees and turn it into a sweet profit. The Brown family owns a maple-syrup-making business in Fredericktown, an hour northeast of Columbus in Knox County. It?s an informal operation, with most of the syrup sold from the Browns? home and in farm markets. It?s not a full-time business, although it does make money. In those ways, the Brown business is characteristic of most maple-syrup producers in Ohio. The state was No. 5 in the nation last year for the amount of maple syrup produced, but the enterprise remains a cottage industry. Still, it rakes in about $5 million a year. more at:http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/24/20070224-C1-00.html
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