Our Story

Our story begins with a small sugarhouse and a big dream.

Greg Bockius began sugaring in the 1980's alongside his dad in Hopkinton, New Hampshire. Back then, their operation was as simple as it gets — a tiny sugarhouse they built themselves, an open pan set on cinderblocks, and a wood fire burning beneath a converted 55 gallon barrel. It wasn't fancy, but it was enough to spark a lifelong passion.

Years later, in 2011, Greg returned to his childhood home and revived that early dream. With determination — and an excavator — he literally picked up the original sugarhouse and moved it aside to make room for something bigger. In its place, he built a new sugarhouse and gradually expanded the operation, upgrading to a 3' by 8' wood-fired evaporator and adding a reverse osmosis machine.

But it wasn't easy. Most of the sap had to be collected from trees located miles down the road, turning every sugaring season into a logistical challenge. Even so, Greg kept going, driven by a vision he'd carried for decades: to one day own a true sugarbush where sap could flow directly from the trees into the sugarhouse.

That dream came closer to reality in 2019.

After five years of searching, Greg and his wife found the perfect property in Reading, Vermont on Stone Chimney Road — 235 acres of untouched forest filled with maple trees that had never been tapped. There was no power, no buildings, and no infrastructure — just raw land and potential.

What followed was five more years of hard work, patience, and careful planning. Together, with help along the way, they mapped sap lines through the woods, cleared trails to reach the trees, installed miles of tubing, and built what they now call the “sap-dominium” — their sugarhouse at the heart of it all.

In the middle of this transformation, Greg made another leap — selling his metal fabrication business in New Hampshire to focus entirely on building their new life and sugar operation in Vermont.

Greg's wife, Lane, can be found bottling syrup for online orders, as well as managing the website and online sales. Their daughter, Amelia, plays a key role too — running the social media accounts for the farm while working toward a degree in marketing.

Today, that once-empty forest has become a thriving sugarbush, and the dream that started with a homemade evaporator and a handful of trees is now something much bigger.

But at its core, nothing has really changed.

It's still about the woods, the work, and the simple joy of turning sap into maple syrup.

— Greg & Lane Bockius