Maple sugar season commences with Royalston event
Visitors mingle outside the Sweet Water Sugarhouse in Royalston just prior to last Friday’s reading of a proclamation from Gov. Charlie Baker declaring March to be Maple Month in Massachusetts. Staff Photo/Greg Vine
Ashley Randle, deputy commissioner of the state Department of Agricultural Resources, is assisted by Sweet Water Sugarhouse owner Tom Leray as she taps the official “first tree of the season” to get Maple Month under way. Staff Photo/Greg Vine
Steam escapes from the chimney at the Sweet Water Sugarhouse in Royalston shortly after firing up the evaporator. Staff Photo/Greg Vine