The Name......

I've had a few people ask about where the name "Sugarbush Spring" came from so here's the story....

At the back of the property sits what the Ames Family calls the 'Sugar Camp'. This is where Maple Trees are tapped every spring for the makings of fresh maple syrup. The actual sugar camp building was still standing until a couple of years ago. Brian remembers his Grandpa boiling the sap into syrup when he was little. We hope to one day rebuild it - the foundation looks good - not sure if we'll ever make our own syrup onsite, but maybe one day!

A few years ago, Brian's mom bought our boys a book entitled Sugarbush Spring. It is about 3 generations of a family working together to make maple syrup. It is a wonderful story by Marsha Wilson Chall with beautiful illustrations by Jim Daly.

When we first started talking about purshasing this family land, we referred to it with the boys as "Sugarbush Spring - just like your book." The name stuck with the boys and now a game is played everytime we are driving home - who can see the house first through the trees. They yell from the back of the truck "I see Sugarbush Spring." Trent has even started playing this fall. Drake says he gets it easy though because Trent only needs to say "Sugarbush Spring".

The trees are still being tapped, we were living here when it happened this past spring. It is now done by a friend of the family who taps the trees and then the cooking process is done by someone else. We hope that next year we can take the boys to see the cooking of the syrup and like I said, maybe someday we'll do it ourselves - again on this land!