Climate change and supply chain disruptions have affected Berkshire sugar producers as maple sugar season begins to heat up, but still, they are optimistic about their craft.
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Last March, as sugarhouses started ramping up their sweet production, maple syrup ended up being the last thing on all our minds. We kind of got lost in the news cycle, said Carla Turner of last season s syrup production that was â like everything else â interrupted by COVID-19. Sugarhouse tours stopped and the normally busy spring season where visitors trek to their favorite farms to smell the sweet steam coming off the boilers was silent. But, the syrup kept coming.
Turner â along with her husband, Paul Turner â runs a sugaring operation on Paul s family s dairy farm in South Egremont. The couple has been sugaring at Turner Farms Maple Syrup for 37 years now. The farm, she said, aims to produce 1,000 gallons of syrup a year, some years are better than others. The last two years, they made considerably more, but were worried what they were going to do with it.
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