Walking the real Maple Avenue in Lebanon

Heidi Bundy remembers helping tend 3,000 taps in her family's maple orchard on Tomapo Farm whe she was a kid. Bundy walked the sap lines on the farm in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Feb. 17, 2020, placing some of the 1,600 taps that she now uses to collect sap by vacuum. The farm has been in Bundy's family for ten generations, since 1763 and she said every generation has tried something a little different. Over the 250 years since the land was cleared, it has produced sheep, walnuts and butternuts, dairy, and is now primarily managed as woodland. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Valley News — James M. Patterson

Bob Townsend, of Lebanon, places a drain on a collection tank for water condensing from the steam of boiling maple sap in the sugarhouse of his uncle Bruce Townsend, right, as they prepare for sugaring to begin at Tomapo Farm in Lebanon, N.H., Monday, Feb. 17, 2020. The water will be used for cleaning at the sugarhouse. "People ask me how much I'm going to make this year, and I say, I'll let you know on the first of May," said Bob Townsend. "You're at mother nature's mercy." (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. James M. Patterson