Journey's End Farm - Maple Syrup

JOURNEY'S END FARM
Journey's End has been the Curtis family farm since 1925, and the site of Journey's End Farm Camp for children since 1960. It includes over 200 acres of woods (including a maple sugarbush), fields, pastures and gardens, a one-acre pond, and two streams. It is home to two families of Curtises, a menagerie of farm animals, and many peoples' memories. The farm operations and virtually all practices and activities that take place here are governed by our philosophy that we should not take more from the earth than we need and what we do take should be used to its fullest extent.

MAPLE SAP SEASON - Poem

Spring is coming, winter goes
Melting February snows.

Warm March days, cold starry skies
Make the maple sap to rise.

Daytime thaw and nighttime freeze
Draw the sap up in the trees.

Morning sun will make it drop;
Evening cold will make it stop.

Dump the silver buckets gleaming.
Boil the sap and watch it steaming.

Cool it now and stir it quick,
It's maple syrup, brown and thick.

Boil it more, the syrup's thicker
Cool it, stir it, beat it quicker.

It's maple sugar, sweet and good,
Best of all the Indians' food.

--Marie Curtis

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• Maple Syrup
• Maple Sugar
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