Steamed Up

Westhampton


Folder: Massachusetts

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05 Mar 2011

233 visits

Boiling

Leo Aloisi explains the process to visitors to the sugar house. They have a café next door, made of straw bales, where they serve pancakes and sell maple syrup. See where this picture was taken. [?]

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05 Mar 2011

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Evaporation

The evaporation trays are about 10 years old. It takes something like 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of syrup. See where this picture was taken. [?]

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Firebox

Leo Aloisi's dad purchased the firebox in the 1950s. Leo burns pallets for fuel. The fire gets so hot that the only thing left of the pallets is the nails. See where this picture was taken. [?]

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Steamed Up

The sugar house at Hanging Mountain Farms in Westhampton. First day of boiling, but they didn't have much sap yet, so it was only a slow boil. See where this picture was taken. [?]