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Article: syrup on tap; MAPLE
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- September 11, 2009
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For 25 years, a farm forester has been tapping away at an
experiment to produce maple syrup from his own trees. Vanessa
Phillips meets a man savouring the sweet taste of success. ---------
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TWENTY-FIVE years is a long time to wait for maple syrup fresh
from your backyard, but if you ask Moutere hills man Dave De Gray,
he'll tell you it's worth it.
"It's richer and certainly a much more distinctive flavour than
the commercial stuff," he says, describing the taste of homemade
syrup produced from the sap of the 200 syrup maples growing on his
four- hectare property.
In the autumn, the Acer saccharum trees are ablaze with vibrant
colour, but it's late winter/early spring when they ...