Welcome to 21st Century Family-Scale Agriculture!
Located in the highland forests of the Berkshires, in Heath, MA, BSG Maple and Carbon Farm is a unique agroforestry project producing Single-Crop, Single-Batch maple syrups.
Janis, Brooks, Connor, Rowan, and Gavin
1-888-576-2753,
bsgfarm@peoplepc.com
The heritage of harvesting sap and producing maple syrups spans many centuries. Colonial settlers gained their knowlege about this forest crop from Native Americans and since that time, well handled syrups have successfully surpassed cane sugar and many other sweeteners in taste, nutrition, and social and environmental outcomes.
If you have not tasted BSG-Farm's variance-harvested short batches a surprise is in store! This is NOT the graded pancake syrup you're familiar with! Single-Crop, Single-Batch syrups differ keg by keg! Each small batch captures surprising and complex flavors that are driven by wild fermentation and artisanal farm practices.
Welcome to the farm and have fun exploring!
This website provides you with tools to interact with a working agroforestry farm. Along with offering striking single-batch syrups for your table and pleasure, the site presents an array of topics covering conservation, energy generation, carbon sequestration, ecosystem services and sustainable agricultural practices which concern the broader public and the vast open spaces we all depend upon. We have built into this website science- based observations and practices, resource tabs and references, applications already in play and projects in development. We hope you will find these resources of use in your own explorations & actions and that this exchange may further develop our collaboration with you as we all learn, grow and struggle to apply the challenging lessons that environmental change is bringing to our doorsteps.
*Purchasing Syrups
*The fascinating science of maple and its rich heritage.
*We all farm carbon! An introduction to local/global carbon management, soil health and biocultural diversity as a carbon pool.
*Solar powered harvesting & energy conservation.
*Direct-market, family-scale agriculture and the ecosystem services marketplace.
*Delicious, surprising and healthful ways to cook using maple.*The core ways that you, informed consumers, participate in, and drive, best agricultural practices!
