Wagner Maple Products

Second week in to the sugar season walking out of the pump house up my East mainline. Note the evergreens that grow between the maples tells you it’s a cold bush with stressed maples gives awesome syrup flavours.

The maple sap & boiling season is a wrap and we are busy cleaning the spiles with an 1:1 alcohol to water solution to keep the vacuum lines clean. The forest floor is booming with Hepaticas and fungi!

It was a busy and special week preparing for maple syrup season at Wagner Maple Syrup Farm! In preparation for sap-running season, Natalie and Kailey were out in the bush tapping, while both of their father’s Jeff and Andy, respectively, were finishing renovations in the boiler room!

Natalie & Kailey walked the entire bush and tapped pretty much all of the 1,200 trees which all together is about 2,200 drilled holes and spiles tapped in! Our bush has swampy areas with both sugar maples and black maples. The maples share space with cedar, birch, beach, and hemlock trees and many more plants! Rocky fields surround most of the perimeter. The girls felt much gratitude to be working with the trees, mushrooms, and spirit of this special forest.

Jeff and Andy started and completed the important and difficult job of drywalling the entire boiler room! They had scaffolding set up reaching up to the 16-ft ceiling, worked in awkward corners and confined spaces around the boiler equipment.

Natalie and Jeff will be walking the bush this weekend to fix any leakages in the vacuum lines and to access the remaining mainline's damage from fallen trees from Dureco.

We are proud of everyone’s positive attitudes and recognize the importance of supporting each other in the more difficult moments of this work. Mostly, we are excited for the maple syrup boiling season to begin soon!

Kailey has been working hard in the Maple Bush tightening lateral lines, replacing lines with holes, and taping parts from animal nibbles.

We will be at ptbo regional farmers market this Saturday, come get your maple syrup needs or just say hi!

Happy New Year! We are BACK at the Peterborough Regional Farmer’s Market January 7 from 8 am - 1 pm. Located Downtown on Level 1 of Ptbo Square and The Food Shop also carries our products!

We are busy fixing and tightening the lines for tapping season coming up in February. We are also working on our branding and will have signage for our markets this year! 🌞

Merry Christmas from Wagner Family to yours! Julianne and Kailey got shots with Santa Clause at the Christmas Eve Market! We’re open until 1pm. Happy holidays folks ❄️🎅🏼

Peterborough Regional Farmers Market Christmas Eve market is still on 8am - 2pm. We’ve got lots of maple butter and maple syrup for your Christmas Day pancakes and holiday baked goods!

Need some last minute stocking stuffers? Some syrup for Christmas Day pancakes? Come to the Christmas Eve Market running from 8 am - 1pm! Our maple candies and 100 ml syrup bottles, and maple butter are a naturally sweet treat to gift to your loved ones this holiday season! Check out the other vendors at the market too, lots of soaps, baked goods, wood and more!

Bottling for the Thursday Lakefield and Saturday downtown farmers markets in the middle of renovating the bottling and packing barn. The pile of studs makes a good bottling table.

Prepping the third flat of strawberries from Maclean’s Berry Farm for tomorrow’s downtown Peterborough farmers market. Stop buy and get your bowl this Saturday!

Wonderful mid September morning at the Peterborough Regional Farmers Market.