Twenty feet up a sugar maple, Chase Locke, of South Royalton, Vt., finds a place on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, to install a sap lifter to increase the slope of a line at a maple grove he leases in Vershire, Vt. Locke and his girlfriend, Taylor Starr, also of South Royalton, boil gathered sap at Red Barn Farm, their sugarhouse in South Royalton. On Sunday they will start tapping over 24,000 trees in several towns, including 550 they have added this year. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
Twenty feet up a sugar maple, Chase Locke, of South Royalton, Vt., finds a place on Friday, Jan. 15, 2021, to install a sap lifter to increase the slope of a line at a maple grove he leases in Vershire, Vt. Locke and his girlfriend, Taylor Starr, also of South Royalton, boil gathered sap at Red Barn Farm, their sugarhouse in South Royalton. On Sunday they will start tapping over 24,000 trees in several towns, including 550 they have added this year. ( Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: valley news — Jennifer Hauck