How to support your local sugarbush

Like many other businesses, maple sugarbushes in Eastern Ontario, the Outaouais and beyond have been devastated by the events of the last two years. Traditional maple festivals and pancake houses have been tricky to run.

However, you can’t just tell a maple tree to stop producing sap! All that sweet goodness is still coursing through the local sugar maples, and the folks who bottle maple syrup and make sugar, taffy and candy are eager to sell their products to those who love the sweet stuff.

Want to support your local maple syrup producer? Check this list of Ontario maple sugar producers and Quebec cabanes à sucre to find out how you can buy their products online or at local stores. (In 2022, a few sugarbushes are also offering sugar season events; check this post for details on those.)

And, as always, if I’ve overlooked your favourite place, let me know and I’ll do my best to include it.

Cover photo by Eduardo Vázquez on Unsplash.

Ottawa maple syrup producers

• Garland Sugar Shack, Vars
• The Log Farm, Cedarview Road
• Proulx Farm, Cumberland
• Rustic Maple Farm, Navan
• Stanley’s Olde Maple Lane Farm, Edwards
• Vanier Museopark Sugar Shack

Sugarbushes in Lanark County and the Ottawa Valley

• Branson Family Sugar Bush, Elphin
• Century Maple, McDonald’s Corners
• Conboy Maple Syrup, Sharbot Lake
• Coutts Maple Products, Perth
• Denbigh Farms, Denbigh
• Ennis Maple Products, Balderson
• Farrell’s Finest Maple Products, Perth
• Fortune Farms, Almonte
• Fulton’s, Pakenham
• Grants Settlement Farms, Foresters Falls
• Hewitt Acres, Griffith
• Hollow Point Ranch and Sugarbush, Renfrew
• Mapleside Sugarbush, Pembroke
• Oliver’s Mapleworks, Perth
• Springdale Farm, Clayton
• Temple’s Sugar Bush, Lanark
• Thompsontown Maple Products, Clayton
• Wheelers Maple Products, McDonald’s Corners

Other Eastern Ontario maple producers

• Antoine Maple Syrup, Lyndhurst
• Back Shed, Embrun
• Barkleyvale Farms, Chesterville
• Bata Maples, Quinte West
• Cassburn Sweets, Vankleek Hill
• Au Domaine du Verger Cleroux, Casselman
• Glengarry Maple, North Lancaster
• Halladay Maple, North Augusta
• Hunter’s Maple Products, Spencerville
• Sand Road Maple Farm, Moose Creek
• Stonebriar Farm, Dunvegan

Outaouais and other Quebec cabanes à sucre

• Sucrerie Alary, Luskville
• Domaine de l’Ange Gardien, Ange-Gardien
• Erablière J.B. Caron, Gracefield
• Ferme et Forêt, Wakefield
• Sucrerie de la Montagne, Rigaud
• Ferme Patry, Ange-Gardien
• La Paysannerie, Bristol
• Erablière St-Germain, Ange-Gardien

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