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Spiles

August 27, 2009

There always seems to be new innovations out that say they are going to increase production and save the industry thousands of dollars. This blog post is dedicated to Alan at globurban.com.  He sent an amazing list of all the different maple syrup festivals that are going to be happening around Ontario, thanks Alan. Alan [...]

To Market

August 25, 2009

Well today was a pretty full day of trying to get maple syrup sales going. I have been working on creating online shopping cart in order to sell my syrup off the website. I’ve got something together the only problem is shipping, I don’t really know exactly how to charge for shipping,  still working out [...]

Hello All

August 20, 2009

My name is Mike Garside. I am the bush operations guy in this adventure. Dave wants me to start a Blog about what I am doing in the syrup trade. I first should give a little info on myself. I spent 7 or 8 years working for the second biggest Maple syrup producer in Ontario, [...]

lets get selling

August 19, 2009

So I’m all ready to start selling my maple syrup through Craig’s list. I must say that I am pretty happy about how it’s going so far. I can’t decide whether I should sell it all directly myself or whether I should find a health food store or grocery store in the area that would [...]

Things to Think about

August 16, 2009

Well there are so many questions to be asking when putting together a new Sugarbush. Right now I’m having a bit of trouble trying to find the right size bottles  to sell Maple syrup in. The 250 mL bottle seemed to be the most popular but as it turns out I only have one left. [...]

The start of something beautiful

August 12, 2009

Well it looks like I’m going to be expanding my maple syrup career. I was up north on St. Joseph Island and I got to talking with a very good friend of mine Mike Garside.