Heath Run Maple

06/01/2025

Set up at the First Sunday Festival in Annapolis. We’ll be here until 5:00pm, so stop by and see us if you’re in the area today. It’s a beautiful day to enjoy the festival.

05/30/2025

Beautiful day at the spring antique machinery show at Penn’s Cave. We’ll be set up here from today through Sunday. Stop out and get stocked up on your favorite maple products if you’re in the area. Looks like the rain will fall overnight and be done by the time the agow opens tomorrow. Hope to see you in the next couple of days.

05/04/2025

Set up in Annapolis at the First Sunday Arts Festival. The rain stopped 10 minutes ago and the weather looks cloudy but dry rest of the day. Come on out and see us if you’re able to.

05/03/2025

Set up at the spring fling Danville today. Event runs from 9am-4pm. The weather looks good until later in the afternoon. Stop out and get your maple fix if you’re in the area.

Tomorrow we’ll be set up at the First Sunday Festival in Annapolis, MD from 10am-5pm.

04/23/2025

It’s been a tough month since our last post.
I intended to post a view pictures of the new evaporator in action but we had an unfortunate situation to deal with and I’m just now getting back to a post. On the evening of March 17, we experienced a house fire and lost our house. Something you never think you’ll experience but it happens. We spent the last month getting back on our feet, finding a place to live while we rebuild and getting back into a “normal routine”. The good news is the worst is behind us and we continue to move forward and each day we are closer to being back “home” by this fall. The rebuild planning process is moving forward as we work with the insurance company to get our claim paid out. We hope to be starting the actual project sometime from mid-May to beginning of June.

Enough of that talk for now, let’s talk Maple season. Our sugar house was spared from any damage but we did lose a couple holding tanks and some smaller equipment for bottling and making value added products. As you can expect, it was tough to deal with the house situation, keep up with my day job and keep sugaring. So a special thank you to Triple M Maple and Hamiltons Maple Products for offering to help us by offering to cook our sap and help us bottle and make other products with there equipment while I was tracking down some replacement equipment. I am finally back up and running independently.

The maple season ended for us on April 3. It was a short but ok season but not great. We ended up with about the same amount of syrup as last year but last year wasn’t a great year. So now it’s back to event season with our first big event of the year this weekend at the Chainsaw Rendezvous in Ridgeway. It runs from today through Saturday. Stop out and see us if you’re in the area.

03/15/2025

Apologies for not posting this winter as I was preparing for the maple season. Been super busy and figured I’d just do a big post when I was done with everything.

This year we got a new to us 5x14 evaporator from a great couple in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. We picked it up in mid-October but had to get old evaporator out and add a small addition to the back of building to make it work the best.

Plan was to start all that after the Holidays but after we got the old evaporator out right after New Year’s it got cold and we just didn’t get to it until mid-February. We made some repairs to the arch and got it set in place Presidents Day weekend.

Then we pivoted to working in the woods and getting the tree tapped. We finished that first week of March. Got our first sap on March 5th. Had to send that sap to another producer that is close by as we still didn’t have the evaporator ready.

Finished the addition and setting up evaporator yesterday, March 14. Hauling sap to sugarhouse as I write this. Should be done in couple hours and then plan to do our first boil this afternoon. I’ll post pictures of that tomorrow.

The pictures are a few from throughout the process so far. It’s been a lot of work but should be a much better process as it shouldd cut our cooking time down by 2/3rds.

11/03/2024

We will be set up in Annapolis today at the First Sunday Arts Festival. This is the last First Sunday Festival of the year. We will be in Truist Park not on West Street as we’ve been. Stop down and stock up on your maple products to get you through the winter until next spring. Hope to see you today!

10/19/2024

Set up today at the Applefest event in Chambersburg. It runs from 9am-4pm today. If you are in the area stop and stock up on maple syrup and other maple products for winter. This will be last time we are in Chambersburg this year until next spring in April at the Fountain Festival.

10/06/2024

Set up today at the First Sunday Festival in Annapolis. If you’re one of our friends from the Annapolis area stop out this afternoon and grab some pure maple products.

09/22/2024

Just restocked Rocky Ridge with more syrup, maple sugar and some maple cream this time. Stop by grab some fresh pressed cider and some apples and get stocked up on maple products for the fall and winter.

09/20/2024

Set up at the Deer, Beer and Gear Outdoor Expo at the Fayette County Fairgrounds today through Sunday. Stop by and check it out if you are in the area.

09/09/2024

https://www.huntchef.com/deergearbeerexpo

We’ll be set up at this event September 20-22. This is the first year for the event and it looks to be a great event with the potential to draw a large crowd. If you’re in the area check it out and stop by to see us and stock up on Pure PA Maple Products for the fall and winter.

The Deer, Gear & Beer - Hunting & Fishing Outdoors Expo & Sportsman’s Swap Meet - is the only outdoor consumer event of its kind in the Laurel Highlands where outdoor enthusiasts can view and shop for new hunting, fishing, camping, and power sports products—as well as participate in an o