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
- Cooking with Maple, Laurie and Molly Stanavage (Room 113 - Food Lab)
- Switching to vacuum using a Guzzler pump & sugarbush monitoring for smaller producers using SapCheck, Bosworth Pumps - Room 108
- Maple 101 - Short Course - Will start at 10:00 - Room 109
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