MSPAC Pre-Season Meeting

  
MSPAC 2021 Pre-Season Meeting 
Location: Lyman Memorial High School, Lebanon, CT
Date: February 5, 2022 
Time:  8 am to 12 pm

MASKS ARE REQUIRED.

Agenda:

8:00-9:00 Coffee and Donuts, check-in, mingle with vendors and other members in cafeteria
8:00-9:00 Hydrometer testing drop off, Maple Syrup Contest syrup dropoff, Pay dues
​9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks 
9:15-10:00 Business Meeting and Maple updates
November Minutes
Member Directory
Budget Report – Buster Scranton
Taste the Maple brochure – Geoff Picard
Maple Weekend 
Durham Fair – Spence Luthy
Maple Manual
Department of AG Update 
Yale ACER grant Update – Joe Orefice 
Ag Day – Bill Farrell
10:00-10:15 Break
10:15-11:30 Workshops
  1. Cooking with Maple, Laurie and Molly Stanavage (Room 113 - Food Lab)
  2. Switching to vacuum using a Guzzler pump & sugarbush monitoring for smaller producers using SapCheck, Bosworth Pumps - Room 108
  3. Maple 101 - Short Course - Will start at 10:00 - Room 109
11:30 Pick up hydrometers and mingle with  vendors
12:00 Adjourn

Participants can also pick up Maple Weekend signs

Vendors: Bosworth, Farm Family Insurance, H20, Connecticut Research and Conservation and Development, Norman's Sugarhouse, Lamothe's Sugarhouse