Tom Shaw checks the sugar levels of his maple syrup at Shaws in Oro-Medonte on March 11, 2023

Tom Shaw checks the sugar levels of his maple syrup at Shaws in Oro-Medonte

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Tom Shaw walks through the trees from which Shaws collects their sap for maple syrup in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023

Tom Shaw walks through the trees from which Shaws collects their sap for maple syrup

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Tom Shaw points out old tap holes in a tree on the Shaws property in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023

Tom Shaw points out old tap holes in a maple tree on the Shaws property

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Tom Shaw stands amongst the trees that produce sap for his and his wife Terri-Lynn Shaw's maple syrup business, Shaws, in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023

Tom Shaw stands amongst the trees that produce sap for his and his wife Terri-Lynn Shaw's maple syrup business

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Bottles of maple syrup from each boil in 2022, which is the final step in producing the syrup, sit in the window of Shaws in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023. The first boil in 2022 was on February 22nd but this year it was on February 15th, with the sap beg

Bottles of maple syrup from each boil in 2022, which is the final step in producing the syrup, sit in the window of Shaws in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023. The first boil in 2022 was on February 22nd but this year it was on February 15th, with the sap beginning to run a few days before that. It’s the earliest the sap has run in Shaws’ 119 years in business

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Tom Shaw checks the sugar levels of concentrated tree sap at Shaws in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023. When the sugar levels reach 16% the sap will be moved to the evaporato to boil it until the sugar levels reach 67% and it becomes maple syrup.

Tom Shaw checks the sugar levels of concentrated tree sap. When the sugar levels reach 16% the sap will be moved to the evaporator to boil it until the sugar levels reach 67% and it becomes maple syrup

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Tom Shaw shows the old tap holes in a piece of wood where his ancestors once tapped the tree for sap, at Shaws in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023

Tom Shaw shows the old tap holes in a piece of wood where his ancestors once tapped the tree for sap

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Shaws co-owner Terri-Lynn Shaw (r) checks orders as Madi Korzeniewski (l) and Carley Yeoman help prepare and serve breakfast to customers at Shaws Pancake House in Oro-Medonte on March 11, 2023

Shaws co-owner Terri-Lynn Shaw (r) checks orders as Madi Korzeniewski and Carley Yeoman help prepare and serve breakfast to customers at Shaws Pancake House

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Customers eat breakfast at Shaws Pancake House in Oro-Medonte on March 11, 2023

Customers eat breakfast at Shaws Pancake House

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Carley Yeoman pours syrup into containers for customers at Shaws Pancake House in Oro-Medonte on March 11, 2023

Carley Yeoman pours syrup into containers for customers at Shaws Pancake House

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Tom Shaw talks to Olga Bitkova and her son Timothy Goncharov about the process of evaporating sap at Shaws in Oro-Medonte, March 11, 2023. Evaporating the sap takes its sugar level up to 67%, which is maple syrup.

Tom Shaw talks to Olga Bitkova and her son Timothy Goncharov about the process of evaporating sap

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Plastic tubing uses gravity to gather tree sap for producing maple syrup at Shaws in Oro-Medonte on March 10, 2023

Plastic tubing uses gravity to gather tree sap for producing maple syrup

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A 350-year-old maple tree resides on the property of Shaws in Oro-Medonte, March 10, 2023

A 350-year-old maple tree resides on the property of Shaws

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