News From the Sugarhouse
THE MAPLE MOOSE:
***MAINE MAPLE SUNDAY UPDATE***
We've postponed our Maine Maple Sunday weekend due to the safety of our maple family, friends, customers, the State of Maine, as well as the Nation as a whole. We wish you and your families good health during this time.
We'll continue to make updates here as the maple season progresses, and as we start producing maple syrup! We're ready here at the sugarhouse, but the trees and the bears are still in hibernation due to the chilly Northern Maine weather!
We know that you are excited to get your hands on our fresh, hand made maple products. We have updated our online store to help promote social distancing, and safely supplying you with the delicious products you crave. All of the products we offer are available in our online store, and we have added In-Store Pickup.
*Simply select the products that you love
*Select the pick-up option at checkout, and choose an available pick-up time from the menu
*We accept all major credit cards as payment.
*When finished, you can submit your order to us
*We will hand pick your items from our shelves, and have it ready for you to pick up at our store in Easton.
You can still order online and have most of the items shipped directly to you. (Some items available for pick-up only).
If you have any questions, or need help completing an order, please call us @ 768-1062, or email maplemoosecjk@gmail.com.
We have been hard at work in the sugarhouse crafting the maple syrup and confections you love, and are glad to be able to offer this option.
Thank you for your continued support of
The Maple Moose :)
We have been selected as the
"2020 Maine Maple Syrup Producer Family"
by the Maine Maple Producers Association!
We're very excited to share this honor with our family and friends, and will continue to share our love of maple with everyone we meet!
How We Started
The Maple Moose was started in the Spring of 2007 when CJ King had the idea to make his own pure maple syrup. Grabbing a couple of buckets and spiles, he trudged to the woods with his snow shoes and tapped a few maple trees.
Making his own boiling system consisting of an old wood stove, metal sheeting, and a few miscellaneous pots and pans, he began boiling his own maple syrup.
It wasn't long before the fad caught on with his wife, Jodi, and sons, Joe King and Jacob King, when they began helping in the project too. The small time maple syrup production then led to needing a bigger building and a brand new Leader evaporator, not to mention a cart to haul maple sap from the woods and equipment to haul the cart! With Joe gathering the sap with the equipment and Jake taste testing, the whole family is now busy in the sugarhouse operation.
Three years after the first "Ol Wood Stove Evaporator," The Maple Moose is now licensed by the Maine Department of Agriculture to produce and sell Pure Maine Maple Syrup. With a new Leader evaporator, vacuum system and even more maple trees, The Maple Moose is hard working and ever growing.