Mount Cabot Maple - Single Source Unblended Maple Syrup: About Us
About Us
Our maple syrup is produced in the timberframe sugarhouse which we built together in 2006. Our sugarhouse, nestled in the woods far up on the slope of Mt. Cabot in northern New Hampshire, is a beautiful place to work. It is also home to some very modern equipment. While some sugarmakers use this equipment solely to minimize their fuel costs, our goal is to run a very efficient operation without compromising the flavor of our maple syrup in any way. Although our evaporator (new for the 2007 season) is wood-fired like those built a century ago, it also features the latest in energy efficient design. By using dead or storm-damaged trees for firewood, we improve the quality of the healthy remaining trees in our sugarbush and practice a long-term stewardship of the land.
Before forming Mount Cabot Maple in 2005, we led very different lives. Biff, a long time resident of New Hampshire, has maple syrup roots that go all the way back to his childhood as he helped his father produce maple syrup at home. Later, he ran his own solo sugaring operation for many years. Most recently he had been building and renovating houses with painstaking craftsmanship and an eye toward a century of future use. Carl was also introduced to maple sugaring as a child but then went on to become a mechanical engineer in the automotive research and development field. Both of us share a love of the outdoors, something that drew Biff to the White Mountains of New Hampshire initially and lured Carl here much more recently.
We'd been friends for several years but after some discussion in the middle of 2005 we decided to join forces and take on a sugaring operation which has been producing maple syrup for over 50 years. We have both given up the careers which we had followed for the previous 10+ years and now we're on to something new and different! Although we each bring a different set of skills and experiences to this endeavor, we are both in complete agreement that our goal is to have fun while producing single-source unblended maple syrup of the highest quality.
At Mount Cabot Maple we look forward to developing and maintaining direct, long-term relationships with all of our wholesale and retail customers. If you contact us with a question or comment about our products, you are guaranteed to be talking with one of the two owners.
Sincerely,
Biff and Carl
Mount Cabot Maple
Mount Cabot Maple LLC
PO Box 218
Whitefield, NH 03598
Phone: Carl:(603) 616-5659
Phone: Biff: (603) 631-2200
info@mountcabotmaple.com
