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Tioga & Potter maple producers open their doors.

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Sugared success: From large, elaborate production facilities to converted storage sheds, Maple Weekend has something for everyone. Some of the producers include (clockwise from top left): Doug Clark, Asaph Maple Farms; Wanda and Brian Warwick, Sticky Bucket Maple; Jaylin, Jennifer, Jody, and Jana Butler, Butler Family Maple; Dale and Melanie Miller, Millers Purely Maple; Jared and Lainey Davis, Triple D Farms; Patterson Farms; Jim and Dora Tice; and Brookfield Maple.

Maple’s Moment

Tioga & Potter Maple Producers Open Their Doors

By Ashley Ensminger

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rom buckets to spiles to reverse osmosis, it’s maple syrup season. To celebrate, the 17th Annual Maple Weekend will take place on March 20 and 21, 2021, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The first Maple Festival was in 1967 after the Potter-Tioga Maple Producers Association hosted several successful maple tours featuring maple producers within the two counties. This first festival consisted of locally produced maple product sales as well as the crowning of maple sweethearts from both counties. The festival has evolved into a mid-season event known as Maple Weekend, which is attended by thousands and continues to grow in attendance and popularity each year. Although COVID-19 precautions such as social distancing and mask wearing will of course be considered this year, maple syrup producers and maple syrup lovers throughout the region look forward to the big event.

Producer participants for the 2021 Maple Weekend will include twenty-two farms from Potter and Tioga counties.

They’ll offer tours, maple production demonstrations, and information on the variety of different maple-making processes.

Each farm has something unique to offer visitors. Many processes and recipes have been passed down through generations of syrup making. Attendees can expect a variety of maple treats to be available for sampling and purchase; some farms hope to provide live music.

Patterson Farms, the largest producer in Pennsylvania, will be one of the twentytwo hosting a weekend of sweetness. Terri and Terry Patterson are fourth generation working farmers and sugar makers at the Patterson Farm just outside of Sabinsville, where they have over 80,000 taps as well as three stainless steel sap silos. “Visitors who have come back over the years will notice a difference,” says Terri, explaining that the sap silos recently replaced the large tank room. During Maple Weekend, Patterson Farms will provide free tasting samples of pancakes and maple sausage. Terry explains that they are one of the few farms that, in addition to their farm tour, also provide

a full maple history, from early Native Americans to present day production, as well as a Patterson family history. Visitors during Maple Weekend can also expect a sugar house tour and kitchen tour, giving them an overview of the entire syrupmaking process. The folks at Patterson Farm will take COVID-19 precautions with hand sanitizing stations and mask-wearing during tours. They’re also considering having smaller rather than larger tours to help with safety.

Miller’s Purely Maple, located about five miles north of Route 6 between Mansfield and Wellsboro, will also participate in Maple Weekend with tours and demonstrations.

Dale and Melanie Miller own Miller’s Purely Maple; they’ve been in in the maple making business together since 1995. The 460-acre farm currently has about 7,500 taps on the property. This year, the Millers will offer maple milkshakes and maple frappes—sweet treats that will be easier for attendees to take with them—rather than serving pancakes as they have done in the past. That would restrict the number of visitors allowed on the farm at once, Dale explains, adding, “We’re going to ask people to follow the CDC guidelines. We will be.”

Another participant is the 180-acre Sons of Dunn Farm, located in Coudersport.

The farm has been owned and operated by the Dunn family since the mid-1950s, and the family has been making maple syrup since 2002. Today, Glenn Dunn Sr. and Joanne Dunn own and operate the farm with the help of their three children.

During the event the Sons of Dunn Farm will demonstrate boiling with fuel oil, explain reverse osmosis, provide educational displays, and sell maple lollipops, candy, and cotton candy.

Sticky Bucket Maple, located in Sabinsville, will also participate this year.

Sticky Bucket Maple is owned and operated

by Brian and Wanda Warwick. They make all of their maple syrup and other maple products on their farm, tending more than 13,500 taps on the property. Weekend events are still in the planning process, but Sticky Bucket Maple hopes to offer such

delicious maple samples such as French toast, maple sausage, bucket brownies, and mulled maple tea.

Another Maple Weekend participant will be the Rathbun-Weber Farm from Chrystal, which is not too far from Shinglehouse in Potter County. RathbunWeber Farm, owned and operated by Howard and Melanie Rathbun, produces quality maple and honey products on their century-and-a-half-old farm that currently has over 1,300 taps. Their sugar shack includes two natural gas-fired evaporators and a reverse osmosis machine. Visitors can expect tours of the farm, and delicious maple products such as maple syrup sundaes will be available.

Sugar Mama’s Appalachian Maple is owned by Rachel Courtney, from Mansfield, where she lives with her husband and their daughter. The farm has about 850 taps and a sugar shack that includes a wood fired evaporator and reverse osmosis machine, which will both be in use during Maple Weekend—if weather conditions are appropriate. Sugar Mama’s hopes to have vendors and live music as in past years, but due to COVID-19 are unable to confirm those plans until closer to the event. They will provide soap and water for handwashing.

In addition to the twenty-two participants, Hills Creek State Park in Wellsboro will also be conducting demonstrations for backyard producers.

See the map on page 24 for maple producer locations. Individual producers have websites and Facebook sites for more information. A complete list of all 2021 Maple Weekend producers, their locations, and what visitors might expect to see during the event are listed on the website at pamaple.com. Visitors can also follow @ PotterTiogaMapleProducers on Facebook for more information regarding the event.

Ashley Ensminger is a freelance writer, university recruiter, and organizer of Open Mic Night for Writers in Mansfield. She lives in Wellsboro.

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ike many of us, Stephanie Pawlowski thought the COVID-19 pandemic would be over by summer—the summer of 2020, that is. It wasn’t, it still isn’t, and business for this new business owner has been spotty, but Stephanie has not been deterred. At least not that much.

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just after the new year.

What exactly does a notary do? It varies from state to state, but the basic work is verifying identity.

“It is a common misconception that notaries ‘make things legal,’” Stephanie says.

That’s not really the case. In Pennsylvania, most notary work is for vehicle titles and tags, which means being an “agent” for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. But other sorts of official and legal documents need identities and signatures to be verified—that is, someone

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And, being “back” seemed to signal that it was the right time to pursue a dream—pandemic or no pandemic—to have her own business doing something she liked. Stephanie explains that she had worked for other notaries/ PennDOT agents in the area before she had relocated south, was a notary in North Carolina, and wanted to get back at it again.

“We looked at this building (26 Tioga Street/Route 287, Tioga, formerly a State Farm Insurance office) before COVID hit,” she says. She and her husband ultimately made the decision to purchase it and the adjacent lot (ideas for that space are percolating, so stay tuned), and then the planning began.

“All last year I was really just trying to focus on my plan of how to do this,” Stephanie says. After the initial COVID lockdown in the spring, two area notaries retired. She then spoke with a few others, who helped her determine there was indeed a need, then “started my checklist and started checking those little boxes off.”

It was somewhat daunting at times.

“So many of the people I had to go through were working remotely,” she says, and, as anyone who had business to conduct with a state or federal agency during that time knows, some offices were not open at all. “There’s lots you have to do to become an agent for PennDOT. Someone has to come out to inspect your building.”

She sighs a little but is still smiling.

“They don’t make it easy,” she continues, but adds that she understands why—all those license plates and all that official paperwork needs to be secure.

As for how a regular person becomes a notary person, Stephanie explains that in Pennsylvania there are specific courses to take, and then a test (she took hers in Port Allegheny) at a “proctored location,” meaning the test-taker is in a room, alone, but observed on closedcircuit television. She confesses modestly that she is a good test-taker, and didn’t find it particularly difficult. Her notary term is good for four years, and she’ll have to take a renewal course when it’s time to re-up.

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interval between deadly plant-killing, blossom-shriveling frosts—is 170 days, a full month longer than my own meager 135.

Nature’s odd justice!

So what does one do with a 135-day growing season? First, recognize that 135 is but an average, and a low one at that. It’s not uncommon for frost to hit the Twin Tiers as late as June 4, or as early as September 16, potentially shortening the official “safe” growing season to an astonishing 111 days.

No choice for anyone here wanting to grow those wonderful heirloom tomatoes (approximately 136 days from seed to maturity) except to retreat and regroup, generally to cold frames, greenhouses, and indoor grow lights, and even then the savvy gardener will be ready for at least one or two evening scrambles to hastily cover plants with tarps, bed sheets, and sheer hope against unexpected frost.

There’s no time to waste, so let’s rub our hands briskly together and get to work. First on the agenda is buying seeds.

If you haven’t done that by now, you’re late. Very late. And if 2021 shapes up like 2020, even early ordering may not have helped you much. While gardeners aren’t the type to engage in Air Jordan aisle fights, whatever their efforts to obtain seeds, some disappointment is inevitable. Last year, as lockdowns interrupted supply chains and the desire for self-sufficiency increased, experienced gardeners doubled down and many new gardeners entered the market.

Seeds were suddenly in short supply. This year demand is also beyond supply. Seed companies have been warning patrons for months of shortages and delivery delays, not just of seeds, but also of supplies, like grow lights.

If you’ve missed the seed wagon, don’t despair, just buy started plants as you find them, and don’t be picky about varieties.

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January 1, but there was a problem with getting her supply of license plates in time for that target date. So, “as soon as I got the plates, I opened,” she says.

That was January 11. She notes that “there is a cost associated with getting the plates.”

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ne day at Hamilton Lake I was watching for the eagles when this robin hopped onto the watershed sign in the parking lot. The lighting was perfect. And even better, it spoke to me of “hope for spring.”

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