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We are Jeff & Lori (McAdam)
Jenness and prior to producing syrup together, we each produced
syrup with members of our families.
The first year we produced syrup
together in 2002 we had approximately 500 buckets and the rest were
collected on gravity tubing. Our daughters, Brianne and Courtney,
usually had already made two trips to the woods gathering with a
4-wheeler and trailer by the time we got home from work. When we
got home we collected the remaining buckets together. We then
collected from the eight collection stations that were fed, via the
tubing draining, into fifty-five gallon barrels while the girls
began their high school homework.
As the girls got older, and
college was very near for Brianne, and Courtney (being only three
years younger) decisions had to be made. We came to the conclusion
that we were ready for change. We weren’t going to have the
womanpower we were used to counting on. We moved the sugarhouse to
a renovated horse barn in 2006 and had 960 taps using vacuum lines,
and for the first time, sap was brought directly to the sugar
house. Sap was, and still is, filtered and processed with a reverse
osmosis (RO). Boiling of the sap was, and still is, done in a 3x8
oil-fired evaporator with pre-heater, hood and an automatic draw
off.
It wasn’t long and our business
once again expanded and a new sugarhouse with radiant (in floor)
heat was built. It was a lot of blood, sweat and tears, but with
help of family and friends, we used it for the first time in 2008.
There have been many upgrades made. We now have 1,410 taps on
vacuum. Sap is now sterilized prior to entering the reverse osmosis
(RO); we purchased an energy efficient evaporator and we also
included a large, uniquely decorated room to host groups, tours, and
visitors.
We hot pack all our syrup so you
are assured the finest product on the market.
Person of the Year”. We were
also recognized as being a stop for the New York State Maple Tour.
Jeff serves as a St. Lawrence
County Delegate to the New York State Maple Producers and is on the
Board of Directors for the St. Lawrence County Maple Producers.
Lori serves as Vice-President of
the St. Lawrence County Maple Producers; is serving as the St.
Lawrence County Maple Weekend Coordinator for 2009; and is currently
Secretary to the New York State Maple Producers.
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Brianne served as 2002 St.
Lawrence County Maple and 2002 NYS Maple Queen Alternate, 2003 St.
Lawrence County Maple Queen, and 2004 St. Lawrence County Maple
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We have welcomed a new son into
our family. In October 2008 Brianne married Bill Tulley. He is
already learning the many aspects of sugaring.
| Courtney served as 2004 St.
Lawrence County and NYS Maple Queen Alternate, 2005 St. Lawrence
County Maple Queen and 2005 NYS Maple Queen Alternate, and 2006 NYS
and St. Lawrence County Maple Queen. |
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Courtney is currently a St.
Lawrence County delegate to the New York State Maple Producers, and
she serves as a Trustee for the American Maple Museum.
Brianne Tulley and Courtney
Donnelly are coordinators for the St. Lawrence County Maple Queen
and Princess Program. If you have questions on this program or
would like more information, please contact them at 578-2552 or
347-3415 respectively.
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St. Lawrence
County Maple Producers
New York State Maple Producers
Pride of New York
“Our Pride is Inside”
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