Gov. Sununu to Kick Off the NH Maple Sugaring Season

Governor Chris Sununu to Kick Off NH Maple Month
Mapletree Farm Hosts the Annual Gubernatorial Maple Tree Tapping

Union, NH: The New Hampshire Maple Producers Association (NHMPA) welcomes the public to kick off NH Maple Month with a ceremonial maple tree-tapping event with Governor Chris Sununu on Thursday March 5, 2020 at 11:30 am at Mapletree Farm, located at 105 Oak Hill Road in Concord, NH.

For nearly 50 years, the Governor’s Tap has welcomed the start of maple sugaring season in NH. Each year, the event is hosted by a different NH sugar house to highlight the richness of the state’s maple sugaring landscape.

Mapletree Farm’s sugarmaker Dean Wilber has been making maple syrup for 73 years. He remembers being seven years old and driving his uncle’s horses in his sugarbush. A lot has changed in maple sugaring techniques since then as visitors to Mapletree Farm will see.

This year marks the 45th year of maple sugaring at Mapletee Farm’s current location where a state-of-the-art sugarhouse expansion took place in 2017. The sugahouse sits on the edge of New Hampshire’s largest and, perhaps the only, tapped planted maple orchard.

New Hampshire Maple Month continues throughout March, celebrating NH’s great maple sugaring tradition. Over the weekends of March 7-8, March 14-15, March 21-22 and March 29-29, sugar houses across the state welcome the public to come experience the process of maple sugaring, with many offering sugaring demonstrations, free tours, samples and family-friendly activities. The largest event, the 25th annual NH Maple Weekend, takes place on March 21-22.