Boreal Birch Syrup

11/16/2021

www.birchsyrup.ca
is for sale.

If you’re selling birch syrup online and want to boost your web presence very easily this domain will help. Without much effort our website was the #1 result on Google for years and you could use www.birchsyrup.ca to guide customers to your own established site.
Contact us via Messenger if interested!

06/09/2016

Here's an article about Boreal Birch Syrup in Billy Online Magazine.

http://www.billyytz.com/702/birch-syrup-a-trendy-taste-of-thunder-bay

Tree the north: Thunder Bay firm produces fine-dining quality

03/31/2016

Here's a nice article on the food scene in Thunder Bay, a scene that has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years.

Adam Waxman travels to Thunder Bay to explore this food tourism and soft adventure destination.

03/24/2016

The Cheese Encounter is all stocked up with Boreal Birch Syrup.

11/18/2015

Massive thanks to my sister Jane and my dad Dave for their help at the Royal Winter Agricultural Fair last week. Our booth gets a lot of traffic and we gave out about 4000 samples, each time with a spiel about the differences between birch syrup and maple. Jane and Dave were great at it and we're very grateful for the help!

11/13/2015

So it seems our website isn't working well right now. Here's a link that should work: http://www.birchsyrup.ca/Home.html
And below you'll find a selection of recipes to try.

11/11/2015

We're down in Toronto for the Royal Winter Fair, come by for a visit!

11/11/2015

09/13/2015

This morning my little helper and I were labelling syrup bound for the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair in Toronto. Boreal Birch Syrup will be in the Northern Ontario pavilion November 11-15. Thanks Mom and Dad for hauling the stock southward today!

07/18/2015

Perfect Saturday morning.

06/26/2015

In 2009 we started experimenting with growing Shiitake mushrooms in birch logs. The initial inoculation wasn't very successful but in 2010, with a new batch of smaller logs, we grew a lot of mushrooms. Yesterday I went to have a look at the stack out of curiosity and found a couple small Shiitakes growing. It's surprising that the mycelium is still alive inside these nearly completely rotten logs; pretty resilient stuff.

06/16/2015

1st International Birch Sap and Syrup Conference.
This past weekend I travelled to Paul Smith's New York, in the Adirondacks to learn more about birch syrup production, speak with other producers and exchange ideas. It was a terrific event with great speakers and I learned a lot about how people are processing birch sap for various finished products.

05/03/2015

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at North House Folk School for their Northern Sustainability Symposium. It's always fun talking birch syrup with an enthusiastic audience.

04/16/2015

Ten years ago today we were tapping our first trees and Boreal Birch Syrup was born. Thanks for your support and business over the years!

03/29/2015

Today I had the pleasure of presenting at Ontario Nature's Forest and Freshwater Foods Entrepreneur Workshop alongside the inspiring founder of Forbes Wild Foods, Jonathan Forbes. The workshop was well attended so you may soon see some exciting new food items at a farmer's market near you.

03/25/2015

Birch Sap Drinks -

I'd really like to know what people think of this. The media can easily get carried away when reporting on such food trends so I'm curious to know if there is genuine interest here, in Canada. There has been a lot of talk this winter about birch sap being the next big thing.
There's no denying the nutritional value of birch sap, have a look at the news link and let me know your thoughts if you can.

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/foodanddrink/forget-coconut-water-birch-sap-is-what-cleanliving-londoners-are-drinking-in-2015-9977165.html

You’re not still banging on about the hydrating benefits of coconut water, are you? How very 2014. This year, there’s a new wonder water poised to get the matcha powder posse buzzing: birch sap.

02/28/2015

Birch Wine
Several years ago a friend of ours made birch wine with sap from our sugarbush. It's been a while since I opened one of these and we enjoyed it tonight. I tested the alcohol content and it's approx. 12% as you can see from the refractometer picture.

01/27/2015

We're proud to announce that we've received our second Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence. We're being recognized for our reverse osmosis filtration and mobile sap tank/pump system that has greatly improved the efficiency of our operation. It was a great morning though it was unfortunate that we were the only recipients to have made it due to the weather.