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Graham House Sugarbush [Our Products]

12152 Cascade Road

Lowell, MI 49331

Work Phone: 616-897-0479

About Us

We are sold out of our 2009 crop. We’ll be making candy and selling our neighbors’ syrup from our house until March 2010. Graham House Sugarbush is a family owned business in Lowell, Michigan. We, Ned and Heidi Stoller, along with our children, tap the trees in our 11-acre hard maple forest, collect and evaporate the sap to produce syrup, and filter and bottle the pure maple syrup in our certified kitchen. We also boil the syrup further to produce maple sugar candy and crystalline maple sugar.

Ingredients We Use

Crystal clear, pure maple sap.

Our Practices

Our evaporator is fueled with firewood from managing our maple woodlot.

Highlights

March is our busy season…the sap flows when the trees freeze at night (increasing the internal pressure of the trees) and then thaw during the day (external tree pressure drops while the internal tree pressure remains high), causing the sap to flow out of the tree. A maximum of 2 holes are drilled into each tree to collect the sap. The holes are 5/16 inch diameter and and 2 1/2 inches deep. The sap looks just like clear water as it drips from the tree, but it has a slight sweet flavor.

Misc.

You are welcome to stop by and visit us if you see steam rising from the woods on the northeast corner of I-96 and Alden Nash (Lowell exit 52). See a map and pictures of our sugar shack at www.syrupandeggs.110mb.com

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