About Us

Maple Quotes

“When made in small quantities – that is, quickly from the first run of sap and properly treated – it has a wild delicacy of flavor that no other can match. What you smell in freshly cut maple-wood, or taste in the blossom of the tree, is in it. It is then, indeed, the distilled essence of the tree.”
- John Burroughs, Signs and Seasons 1886.

About Us

For the last 35 years, David, with the help of his wife Lucy, has grown Butternut Mountain Farm into what it is today – a Vermont company known around the world for producing award-winning maple products.

Source
The heart of Butternut Mountain Farm really is a farm. Located on a hillside 1000 ft above the village of Johnson at the end of three miles of rough dirt road is the 600 acre tree farm that the Marvin family has stewarded for more than half a century. To ensure adequate supply for wholesale customers, the Marvin family has also built long-term relationships with other producers who share a vision of forest stewardship.
Process
We know maple from soil to roots, trunk and twigs, from historic to modern technology, from sap chemistry to flavor analysis, from bulk value to value-added... Look inside our process for making the high-quality maple products for which we're internationally known.
History
Since 1940, the Marvin family has been deeply involved in the science, research, art and practice of sugaring.