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  • Subject is exactly "Maple syrup -- Vermont"

Sugarhouse

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Sugarhouse at Frog Run Farm, built in fall 1973 using lumber from surrounding land. Martha Lasley in foreground.

Sugaring tools

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Spouts used in sugaring at Frog Run Farm. Members gathered them wherever they could - antique stores, farmers who gave them away because they were switching to pipeline. They tapped 500 trees that season.

Sugaring

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Chris Carrington skimming the back pan in the sugarhouse

Sugaring

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Mary Mathias checking for syrup

Sugaring

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Peggy and Tom (new team of horses) sugaring. On the dray are Sky Yardley and Polly Jerome.

Cb Hall

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Cb (sic) sugaring at Frog Run Farm

Robert sugaring

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Robert Houriet sugaring at Frog Run Farm

Robert and Steve Sugaring

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Robert Houriet and Steve Crevoshay sugaring at the Derby house. Steve later started and ran Newport Natural, a natural foods store in Newport, VT.

Robert sugaring

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Robert Houriet sugaring at the Derby house. He originally wanted to name the farm Gemini Farm, but on the day he was sugaring, a man came by and said "Frog Run, eh?" referring to the last sap run of the season. That became the name of the farm.

Martha and Robert

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Martha and Robert standing in the sugarhouse at Frog Run Farm OR Derby house