Ivan Puffenbarger's Sugar Camp, one of the longest-running and most well known locations during the popular Maple Festival, was hit with a fire this week that destroyed the building, the equipment, and at least 300 gallons of fresh maple syrup. It was ready for the hoards of visitors who make the trek to this remote western part of Virginia, upwards of 60,000 over the two weekends.
Rather than use buckets to catch the sap, Puffenbarger used miles of plastic tubing connected to a vacuum pump, which pumped the sap from his maple trees to his sugar shack. It can take as much as 40 gallons of sap to get a gallon of syrup.Read the entire Richmond Times-Dispatch article here.
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