What is the Difference Between Maple Syrup Grades?

A simple search on the Internet with this question brings up some of the most amazing and incorrect answers imaginable. I read articles that told how there were two different processes for making syrup and that the process used for making A syrup stripped it of all of...
Maple Syrup – How It Is Made

Maple Syrup – How It Is Made

Maple Syrup begins as sap in a maple tree. The sap is harvested in the spring when temperatures rise into the 40s during the day and cool off into the 20s at night. It takes a very special place for the conditions to be just right. The sugaring season, as it is...
Maple Syrup

Maple Syrup

There are times when I get so disappointed in the success of media hype and food masquerading that I could just… scream. Not much is sadder that the marketing campaign against maple syrup and how we have been duped into believing that the imitation is better...

Whole Food: Ugandan Vanilla Beans

When you have friends who travel to Uganda each year you never know what they will bring home, especially if your friend is Mrs. Carney Farris. This past trip Carney came home with some wonderful treats for our whole food loving customers. Carney trekked through...