It’s a sure sign of spring when the sugar shack fires up at Gaining Ground. The hunger-relief nonprofit held its maple sugaring open house on February 27 and March 1, and invited the community to see the process and taste the syrup.
While the shack is at Gaining Ground’s Virginia Road farm, the sap comes from more than 100 trees around Concord. The sap is boiled for hours; it takes about 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.
Photos by Jean Fain
