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WOODSTOCK, Vermont As the sun rises, the ethereal song of a wood thrush echoes through Bourdon Maple Farm’s 55-hectare (135-acre) forest in Woodstock. A bright scarlet tanager wings about the canopy as hungry yellow-bellied sapsuckers drill into tree bark. At the height of maple sugaring season, birds provide a comforting soundtrack for the farm’s […]
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When I called Meg Emmons, operations manager and marketing director of Bourdon Maple Farm in Vermont, she had just emerged from the woods after the season’s first day of tapping trees.