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Welcome to the new and improved Ennis Maple Products Home Page! We are located on the eastern shores of Bennett Lake in Lanark County, Ontario.

On our family farm we have 4,000 taps connected to 20 miles of tubing on vacuum and a 600 GPH Reverse Osmosis machine but we are still ALL WOOD FIRED – The Old Fashioned Way! Marty & Andy, with a lot of help from our family and friends, are the 4th generation in the Ennis family to make maple syrup on the property over the past century. We take a lot of pride in producing the best maple syrup possible from the rocky hills of Tay Valley Township.
Check out our Newsletter: Winter 2010

George Ennis

George Ennis and the Old 5'x16' Small Bros Evaporator. You are dearly missed.

Sugarmaker of the Year

Accepting the Sugarmaker of the Year award on Behalf of George Ennis

Mom & Dad - Karen & George Ennis

Karen & George at the Perth Festival of the Maples

New Evaporator - Wood Fired

Our New Toy - The Lapierre Hurricane Force 5

 NEW FOR 2010 – Our 3.5′ x 14′ Lapierre Hurricane Force 5 Evaporator!!! Our Force 5 evaporator is brand new technology that was developed by Lapierre Waterloo Small and ours was the first installed in Ontario! It is wood fired with forced air and greater than 85% efficient – comparable to a propane or natural gas evaporator. This high efficiency means that almost all of the BTU’s from the wood get transferred into the pans to boil the sap into syrup. It is so efficient that we understand it is the only evaporator eligible for the Government of Ontario’s Environmental Farm Plan funding.

Why wood fired? Simple – It grows on trees! To us, it makes more sense to burn something that grows naturally on our property than to burn fossil fuels that have been extracted from the ground far away and shipped to us. That takes far more energy than the energy it takes us to cut, split and stack firewood. Efficient wood burning stoves (and evaporators!) have been argued to be carbon neutral as the wood we burn for heat is simply releasing the carbon that the tree absorbed over its lifetime. This carbon was in our atmosphere over the past decades and will be re-absorbed by the trees that will rapidly grow to replace the space left in our woodlot by the tree that we cut.If you want to know more about Lapierre Hurricane Force 5 Evaporator watch the video on YouTube.