Hi folks and a belated happy new year! It’s already February and the days are starting to get longer, and as sugarmakers we know that the season for making maple syrup is rapidly getting closer. We are organizing tools and equipment, prepping the sugarhouse and getting a crew together to start repairing tubing and tapping trees […]
January 20, 2023 Hi Folks! I wanted to take a moment to share a quick Morse Farm update at the start of the new year, as 2022 ended quite momentously here in East Montpelier. On December 30th, Morse Farm finally changed hands and I (Jake) am now the owner and Burr has officially retired. This proved […]
May 6, 2022 Happy (Maple Syrup) New Year! Hi Folks and greetings from Morse Farm! Jake here, and I wanted to reach out with a quick update from Morse Farm. For sugarmakers, the new year really doesn’t start in January… the new year begins in late winter when the days start getting longer and sap […]
January 3, 2020 Hello again Maple People, Here in Vermont, we drivers are conditioned to be courteous with each other on the road, sometimes even too courteous. On several occasions, I have been involved in a “courtesy dual” with another driver, for instance at a 4-way stop intersection. The hand motioned, behind the wheel “dialogue” […]
Hello again Maple People, All the bad news from around the world gives me an even greater appreciation for living here in Vermont. And, yes, I’ll even factor in cold, deep snow, and deep mud ruts which are our current highway and byway nemesis while doing the little driving we are allowed. Vermont is my […]
July 15, 2016 Hello again Maple People, One of my musician friends also runs a flower shop. She’s quite “mellow” as most musicians are but one subject that can draw her ire is the phrase “in lieu of flowers” that we often see in obituaries these days. I can’t say that I blame her because […]
March 3, 2016 Needless to say, maple sugaring is on my mind these days here in early spring. Everywhere we go the questions to us gush out like sap on a good day: “Will it be a good season? Will this weird winter affect sugarin’? Made any syrup yet?”. And the answers are, respectively, “Huh?, […]
!February 18, 2016 Hello Again Maple People I recently made my annual pilgrimage to the Vermont Farm Show. The day hinted of January thaw but still, there was a breezy Champlain Valley bite to the air as I exited my car in an almost muddy parking lot. I headed toward the fairgrounds thinking “hard place […]
February 4, 2016 Any time I have the opportunity, I tell young music students to “grin and bear it”. It’s true that for much of every musician’s early tenure, there’s a fine line between their “instrument” being one of music or one of torture, but prevailing through the agony always brings huge returns. This old […]
Hello Again Maple People! Them Humans. January 6, 2016 Howyadoin’? I’m James, a fixed male goat livin’ up here on County Road. You’ll have to excuse me but right now I’m eatin’ and oh boy, is this stuff good! My buddy Rex is here with me and we’ll both tell ya, there’s nothin’ like a […]