SUN JOURNAL • March 17, 2024
More than 100 sugarhouses, farms and maple producers across Maine are preparing for the 41st Maine Maple Sunday Weekend March 23 and 24. The event falls toward the end of the sap running season and is a boon to sugarhouses across the state as an opportunity to promote maple products and to showcase the process itself. While the syrup process continues to evolve with extraction and boiling technologies, it has become more erratic due to climate change. Maine Maple Sunday Weekend has almost always fallen on the midseason of sap running, with the frigid nights and warm days of spring being ideal, but producers cannot count on it as a rule anymore.