Now the work begins. Well, not really begins, you've been working all year long to get to this point. Most sugar bush owners spend the rest of the year culling waste and dead trees from their sugar bush, so that all thet remain are healthy maples. The waste wood is cut up, split, lugged to the sugarhouse, and stacked for use in the spring. This cultivating of the forest is what produces the beautiful fall foilage people travel from around the world to see.
Maple trees have particularly bright red and yellow leaves in the fall.
This transforms the areas of Vermont and New Hampshire that have sugarbushes to an amazing pallet of colors. Some of these sugarbushes have been cultivated by the same family since the 1700's. One of these is Goodrich's, another Morse's. You'll find them on the list. Those who didn't want to sweat as much use oil or gas.