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Rex Southwell (pictured) deeply loved the forest. Some of the grandchildren can remember taking picnic lunches through the woods to meet up with Great-Grandad.
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Del Southwell holding Gabe Southwell standing in front of our old backyard evaporator.
Gayle Southwell and Nathan Southwell pouring maple sap from a bag into a bucket.
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Anna Southwell and Gillian Southwell helping the family tap trees in the sugar bush.
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Jacob Southwell pouring maple sap into a bucket.
Our newly constructed sugar shack. Since the time we built the original structure shown here, we have made many new additions, including an out building for a 6,000-gallon sap storage tank and a commercial kitchen.
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Steve Southwell giving a thumbs up from our catwalk located next to the top of our two-story evaporator.
The first fire we ever lit in our evaporator in the spring of 2015. Since then, we have come a long way and spent many hundreds of hours boiling in our sugar shack.
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Nathan Southwell excitedly looking in a small window on the side of our evaporator to watch the sap boiling.
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The grandkids were excited to watch maple sap pour into those collecting tanks during that first commercial season.
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Wanting his grandkids to take the job of taste-testing syrup seriously, Grandad installed a sample cup dispenser in our evaporator room to make maple syrup samples readily available.
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Gillian Southwell and Del Southwell tapping a tree in our sugar bush.
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In our first year of commercial production, Gayle Southwell made many batches of maple candy to perfect her recipe.
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Various local stores have joined us in our efforts to make our maple products easily accessible for our customers.
In 2017, our business had grown to the point that we were able to add the commercial kitchen to our building.
Gabe Southwell tapping a tree.
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We make it a point to host field trips at our sugar bush each spring to teach children how we make Michigan's earliest crop of the year.
Many kids are fascinated to learn about the entire process of making maple syrup.
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Anna Southwell loading our evaporator with wood.
Darci Southwell cleaning our Reverse Osmosis. Cleanliness is key when making maple syrup to achieve clear and rich syrup.
A crew suited up to spend a day in the woods tapping trees.
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Steam rolling out of our steam stacks on top of our sugar shack.
Our sign pointing people toward our sugar shack.
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In 2023 we added our artisan line of maple syrup.
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