Farm News

Dufresne's Sugar House donated syrup to the Massachusetts Agriculture Promotion Board for the 2018 "Taste of Massachusetts" reception at the State House on Massachusetts Agriculture Day.  We thought legislators might want a taste of the best syrup produced here in…

Dufresne's Sugar House is proud to support our community in many ways, including being a major sponsor for the inaugural Syrup Stampede, coming up on April 8, 2018 at Look Park in Florence, Massachusetts.  The first hundred registrants for the…

We had a rare event here today at Dufresne's Sugar House.  We boiled sap in the morning.  We had had a power outage after our last boil and had not realized that it upset our equipment.  When we tried to…

The first syrup of the 2018 season at Dufresne's Sugar House coming off the evaporator after the hours it takes to "sweeten the evaporator", the time we are boiling to get the sap concentrated enough to be syrup.    …

    Here we are, at Dufresne's Sugar House, firing up for the first time in the 2018 sugaring season.  It's about 9 pm at this point.  We spent the day gathering and filtering sap, and getting everything ready to…

Keith  Dufresne, owner and operator of Dufresne's Sugar House, in Williamsburg, MA, is in the middle of tapping the trees for the 2018 sugaring season.     As you can see, some of the terrain is pretty tricky.  Here he…

Guest chef Vivienne West arrived at Dufresne's Sugar House for Thanksgiving dinner with vegetables from her local CSA farm, Alstede Farm in New Jersey.  She created three vegetable dishes which included maple syrup from Dufresne's Sugar House.  See our recipe…

Thanks so much to everyone who came to our annual Equipment Open House on September 30th! We love this opportunity to welcome people to the farm and build relationships with fellow sugar-makers.                …

As Ellen Bhang said in her article about wine in a recent issue of The Boston Globe, terrior is "the totality of [the] growing environment-- [it] is about more than the dirt and bedrock...Factors making up terroir include climate, topography,…