Monthly Archives: March 2019

2019 MS Farm Sprouts – Week #4 Wednesday PM

Spring has arrived and yet, the sap is still flowing! We’re closing in on having one of our best year’s yet in terms of maple syrup production! With these extended freezing nights and warm days, the sap has been flowing … Continue reading

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2019 MS Farm Sprouts – Week #4 Wednesday AM

Spring has arrived and yet, the sap is still flowing! We’re closing in on having one of our best year’s yet in terms of maple syrup production! With these extended freezing nights and warm days, the sap has been flowing … Continue reading

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Greetings From the Tollgate Farm Manager

Greetings All, March is maple syrup season! The 2019 Tollgate maple syrup season officially got underway Saturday, February 23rd with a very successful tree tapping extravaganza! Many eager volunteers came to Tollgate to assist in this activity day. We tapped … Continue reading

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Into the Classroom

As part of our collaborating classrooms program with Lanigan Elementary, Tollgate education staff was very excited to host one of our first virtual classroom visits. Prior to the school visiting the farm for the first time, our team traveled to … Continue reading

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2019 MS Farm Sprouts – Week #3 Wednesday AM

The sap was flowing this week and thus, the evaporator was firing, boiling the sugary maple tree sap (around 2-2.5% sucrose content during the spring run) into delicious maple syrup! Farm Sprouts signed in by creating the letters from their … Continue reading

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