Warmer weather has come nice and early this February and Maple syrup harvesters have jumped on the opportunity for an early harvest.
Tahna Mills, from Havaris Produce, says most customers are not usually aware of the timing when maple syrup hits store shelves.
“Most customers don’t have their eye on that most customers as soon as it’s out. There’s usually looking forward in March is when we usually first get it unless you’re in a more rural area, they might be more aware of it and then they’ll sell out but I think a lot of city dwellers don’t understand,” says Mills
The usual time for tapping trees comes in mid-March when warmer weather starts to become more common. Art Cohen, of Kinsmen Fanshawe Sugar Bush, says the warm weather during the day and near-freezing night temperature are the perfect circumstances to tap the trees.
“So it’s a bit earlier this year, but in the last several years we haven’t had the perfect weather Cycles, where we want the daytime above freezing about, you know, a few degrees.
So close and at night time to be below freezing and that pattern to cycle day after day after day, that’s the perfect season” says Cohen
Tahna Mills, from Havaris Produce, says most customers are not usually aware of the timing when maple syrup hits store shelves.
“Most customers don’t have their eye on that most customers as soon as it’s out. There’s usually looking forward in March is when we usually first get it unless you’re in a more rural area, they might be more aware of it and then they’ll sell out but I think a lot of city dwellers don’t understand,” says Mills
People can pick up locally-made syrup at farmers’ markets, like the Covent Garden market or the farms where it’s processed
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