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Photo by Brent Bjorkman

  Karl Bunnell has been producing maple syrup since 1975. 


 "Of course, years ago they had to have buckets and horses, and hauled it in barrels on the back of a sled."



Karl talks about the changes in syruping, from hauling buckets to using gravity and vacuum lines.

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Photo by Brent Bjorkman


Photo by Brent Bjorkman

Above:  Bunnell's sap house was built in 1983.  Left: wood piled up for heating the evaporators.