While in CT, we noticed all of the buckets hanging from the maple trees and decided to see if they sugar shack was cooking syrup. So, we drove to Ragland Sugar Shack in Southbury. As you turn into their driveway, they have a sign out front that says "sugar shack - house not on fire"! Gage fell asleep, so he stayed in the car with Grammy. We got to go check out the shack, see how they cook the syrup, taste some fresh warm syrup, AND the owner took us to a tree to taste the sap (which is actually mostly water, that just tastes sweet) straight from a bucket on a tapped tree!
We - of course - bought some syrup to take home with us!
