Maple Days Entry Details - West Virginia Maple Syrup Producers Association

Directions: For February 17, our event is cancelled. For March 16, at the sugar bush: From route 219 between Mill Point and Hillsboro, take Seebert Lane east towards Watoga State Park. Go 2 miles to gravel lots at the Greenbrier River Trail/Jack Horner's Corner. Turn around here and head back the direction you came, up Seebert Rd. Go 0.2 miles to a slight right turn over the hill onto Seebert Rd (27). Continue on Seebert Rd along the river 0.7mi to the Low Water Bridge. Just prior to this concrete/culvert creek crossing, turn left under the rail trail bridge and through gate. Follow signs for parking.

Description of Business: The Swan family has been making syrup since 2015, having tapped between 6 and 25 trees yearly until 2020. We made 60 gallons of syrup with a bit over 200 taps in 2021, jumping up to 200 gallons from 850 taps in 2022, and are increasing again to (hopefully) 1,000+ taps in 2023. We have just a handful of maples at our house outside Hillsboro, where our sugar shack is located. Most of the trees we're tapping are leased from several landowners on the beautiful waters of Stamping Creek of the Greenbrier River, in addition to our partnership with the Yew Mountain Center in Lobelia. We plan to tap a number of sycamores again this year, come check it out and grab a sample!

Maple Day Activities: We plan to have an open house at the sugarhouse on February 17, no reservation required, just show up any time between 10 and 5. If there's sap to boil, we'll be boiling. We're hoping to have all sugarhouse components running, for both maple and sycamore. On March 16, we're planning to have an open house at our primary sugar bush in Seebert. Here you'll be able to see the bucket and gravity tubing collection system for maple sap, and the vacuum suction tubing collection systems for sycamore and maple sap.